[Talk-in] Geospatial Information Regulation Bill propsal

[Russell Nelson]

So, what, are they going to raid UCL in London and kidnap the OSM
administrators back to India to stand trial? Are they going to try to bust
OSM editors in India? But all your edits are part of the public record, and
if you didn't touch the international boundary, how could they find you (or
me) guilty? Maybe we need a rite of passage for Indian OSM editors, whereby
they remove the "disputed" from POK, and somebody outside of India adds it
back? "Look, I tried to change it, but a non-Indian changed it back. It's
pointless to try to stop them."

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Johnson Chetty <johnsonchetty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just my two cents:
>
> This is the Indian government trying to reduce the spread of information
> that is non-conducive to national interests.
>
> However, OSM can dispute that our freedom of speech is being restrained.
> The honest counter to that is that we are entitled to freedom of speech
> and opinion, but also to bear the consequences of what we say.
> If what we maintain as a divisive opinion to national interests regardless
> of who is in government, it puts us in a tricky place..
> Ergo: Google shows India oriented maps for requests from Indian IPs and
> China oriented maps for Chinese IPs.
>
> Where does that leave us?
> OSM is apolitical by nature and intends to stay that way.
> So from the government's perspective, the collective opinion of a group of
> Indian and non Indian geography publishers (OSM) does tantamount as being
> non conducive to national interests. I think this leaves us in a position
> where we would be open for litigation.
>
> Any thoughts?
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> On 5 May 2016 at 22:15, Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Economic Times reported this today
>> http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/7-year-jail-rs-100-crore-fine-soon-for-showing-pok-arunachal-as-disputed/articleshow/52117889.cms
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>> How does this affect openstreetmap? Any thoughts?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Pradeep
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> Johnson Chetty
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