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.
Every fediverse site can interact with each other; so to ban interacting with lemmy.ml; you’ll also need to ban the entire fediverse; not to mention the oncoming new fediverse capable sites. Pretty much a piracy hydra situation but each head can be linked to each other, with the exception that fediverse sites hosted on India might not be able to reach the sites banned on India.
If lemmy.ml gets banned, you can still follow communities there using another fediverse site like lemmy.world or mastodon.social.