WhatsApp Warns It May Exit India; Modi False Claims on Muslims, OBCs Refuted; Rahul Talks Wages for Women's Housework
Lust for unbridled, uninterrupted power is making Modi plumb the depths
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April 25, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
India’s WhatsApp Uncles and graduates of Entire Ignorance at WhatsApp University were today put on notice: “As a platform,” WhatsApp lawyers told the Delhi High Court today, “if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes.” The HC is hearing Meta’s challenge to the IT Rules of 2021 under which the government is seeking to force social media intermediaries to be able to trace and break encrypted chats.
Wages for housework has been discussed around the world as an important but neglected economic proposal for years and has now found its way to India’s election discourse. Addressing a public rally, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi flagged the unpaid labour women in India do at home after putting in eight hours outside and said, “to date no government has paid women for this work.” “Perhaps men won’t like me
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