The real danger.

"Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine's military access to Elon Musk's satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries, according to six former senior US officials familiar with the matter." ET. Is this the Aha moment that the government has been looking for? On 7 October, "Elon Musk alleged that Starlink's entry into India is being 'blocked' by certain 'oligarchs' seeking to protect their 'monopolistic chokehold' over the country's people." ET. To that the BJP MP Nishkant Dubey came out with the tired old excuse of "satellite internet service poses challenges to the country's security agencies". TOI. How? By blocking services or by continuing service which the government wants to hide from the people? "Between March and July, there was one blocking order every 68 seconds, on an average, for online content by the government in India. This amounts to around 1,275 every day, nearly 195,000 in just five months." The Wire. During the student protests in New Delhi in July the protesters used Bitchat to get around government blocks of the internet. "The government reportedly wants it shut down saying it can be used for unlawful activities." NDTV. A fascist government naturally wants to control what people say and hear. By October, both Apple and Google had removed Bitchat from their app stores. NDTV. On 10 October, "The crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led stir began long before dawn, with security services tracking digital footprints, monitoring high-profile social media profiles and enforcing restrictions." "To counter aggressive phone-seizure tactics and real-time tracking by intelligence units, many key student leaders and volunteer coordinators switched to secondary, unregistered burner devices loaded with temporary data plans." "Volunteers were briefed to clear cache files, disable biometric unlock features, and limit live broadcast sharing until safely away from active security cordons." News18. American media companies do not allow governments to snoop on their contents. In 2013, "Google has issued a strong denial that it allows the US government to access its servers." BBC. In 2016, "Apple will contest a court order to help FBI investigators access data on the phone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook." BBC. Even after Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot dead 14 people and seriously injured 22 others at a Christmas party on 2 December 2015 at San Bernardino, California. wikipedia.  "Signal, the free and open source end-to-end encrypted messaging service, has become increasingly popular," as "In a recent interview, the president of the non-profit organisation behind Signal reportedly stated that the service would exit a country rather than compromise on its encryption." Gadgets 360. Recently, "OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted 'dozens' of global institutions that their website may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly." BBC. "AI models under test broke into Indian organisations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cyber security agency said." Reuters. In April, "Israel's intelligence agencies hacked into Tehran's street cameras and used the data to assassinate Iran's top leadership." "First, Indian cities are among the most densely surveilled in the world, along with China. Seconds, many of our extensive CCTV networks were put in place about a decade ago and have negligible security features," wrote Robin David. If the government is worried about security it should mandate that all defence, police, intelligence, civil service, ministers and all branches of central, state and local government will access only Indian service providers for official and personal use. Unimportant citizens, who have no classified information, like us, will be allowed to use Starlink. With the US and China developing advanced AI systems no one is safe. Forget what tie to wear when you are naked from waist down. Beware an upper cut.