The Telecommunications Bill, 2023 is a deathblow to democracy in India - you can read more about it over here.

The bill allows the government to take over, manage or suspend telecommunication services or a network over national security.

Federated apps are not censorship-resistant, right? I’d like to believe that this should not cause issue over federated web-apps, but at the same time, will it force VPS vendors to comply with the rule of the state, and therefore, restrict apps?

I’d like to think of how could such arrangements be bypassed? Lemmy’s documentation mentions about running it as a Tor-hidden service.