India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype

crabel writes "A couple of weeks ago India went after RIM and its mail service; it has extended its hunger for data now to all telecommunications. All telecom companies have to give them access to all voice over IP services that go in/out or happen within the country. Heck, they are even going after VPNs used by corporate employees working remotely."

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India = not all that democratic

[schmidt349]

A lot of people don't know this, but the Indians were closely aligned with the Soviet Union in the 1970s. In particular you had the Indo-Soviet Treaty, under which India received military and (gasp) intelligence assistance from the Russians.

So the fact that they're behaving like pseudo-socialist totalitarians right now shouldn't really surprise anybody. And provided they continue to rent their workforce to US corporations at rates that can't be competed with on US soil, our CEOs and CFOs will continue to patronize them.

Re:India = not all that democratic

[BangaIorean]

Let me ask again - is critical analysis too tough for you? No one's casting Indians as the White Knight there - I never said that. Your point was that India is 'less democratic' because India leaned towards the Soviet Union in the cold war (we weren't allied, we used to lean towards them, to be accurate). Now, that statement of yous is bullshit, unless you have your own way of defining democracy. And if a country A sides with country B's existential foe, then country B will turn to country C for help, if country C happens to be A's existential enemy. That isn't too tough to understand!

Re:Is India trying to *stab* its economy?

[Lumpy]

They dont care.

Period.

Corporations care about the next 3 months. They do not give a rats ass about next year. If the CEO can make a bigbonus by destroying the company this quarter, he will do it.