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Is that significant, though? These nations aren't trying to keep things secret. They just have to keep them out of the day to day thoughts of 95% of their population. Even trivial measures like a DNS-redirect will be effective in that regard.


If you give me the ability to cripple the internet for 50% of the population, I will easily be able to rig an election for you.

Hell, in the US, 10% should probably be sufficient.


Interesting thought. So going further, what specifically would you do?


Blackhole any sites people of the opposing political use for political organization, donations, news, propaganda.

As a first pass, you don't even need to block general-purpose platforms like reddit and Twitter and Facebook, you just need to kill the centralized sources of political information.

The point of this exercise isn't a full on repression of all dissent, it's just shifting the political window to topics and mouthpieces that are friendly to you. Most people have mainstream opinions, and if you tilt the mainstream landscape towards you, by driving your opponents into high-friction underground echo chambers, a first past the post system lets you turn a close election into a landslide.


I think they would fail to meet that 90-95% threshold, as India just can't be as physically restrictive as China or Russia. Circumvention measures would proliferate like crazy.


If there's one thing to credit India and its people with, it is the quality of being smart and resourceful.


Also, for all the people employed in tech, their work connection will not be censored.




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