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On one hand, I disapprove of this with the fear of India becoming all watching and dissent suppressing like China. On the other hand, India has a real national security need to know everything that goes on, thanks to its neighbor(s?).

On a parallel note of "foreign" technology companies, I believe we will see data sovereignty being a fundamental right/resource of nations (like natural resources) as a means to fairly redistribute internet technology generated wealth.

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> On the other hand, India has a real national security need to know everything that goes on, thanks to its neighbor(s?).

The good old "national security" crutch. It's always used by those in power to spread surveillance, censorship, restrict freedom of expression, etc. A lot of the issues within India as it concerns the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc., are internally manufactured...and the main culprits are the largest political parties themselves. [1]

India does have constant threats from Pakistan and China, but censorship within the country is not going to help tackle those.

[1]: http://time.com/5512032/whatsapp-india-election-2019/