I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline.
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/indian-government-using-tech-destroy-democracy
I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for. I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, was selling the promise of India, his home country and the company’s largest market, to 2,000 high school and college students. “Part of the reason we’re all very interested in India is that it’s an amazingly young (...)
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