An officer representing the Tamil Nadu police said during a content blocking committee meeting that they were unable to trace the perpetrators behind fake bomb threats sent to schools using Proton Mail.
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I love it. Block the service.

    It’s like how in America, we managed to get significantly lower COVID infection rates because we refused to do testing, and then lied when people died from covid! Win-win!

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    3·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    HT learnt that the ministry decided to block Proton Mail after a request by the Tamil Nadu police, which said it was unable to trace the perpetrators behind a hoax bomb threat that was sent to 13 schools in the Chennai area last week using the service.

    A nodal officer representing the Tamil Nadu police said yesterday that attempts to trace the perpetrators’ IP addresses and to seek help from the Interpol did not bear fruit, the newspaper also reported.

    It added that the officer was present at a committee meeting held as part of the online content blocking process relating to Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.

    Representatives of the IT ministry noted during the meeting that receiving information from Proton Mail on criminal matters was a recurrent problem, HT reported.

    The IT ministry’s reported decision comes just a few days after the Union government issued a notice to The Caravan magazine under Section 69A of the IT Act, asking it to take down an article covering allegations of torture and murder against the Indian Army.

    Legal news website Article14 in a recent report cited experts as saying that the Union government has dodged procedural safeguards while passing orders to block online content.

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