The username wars: India’s small fight over a very big question
The Government is asking why citizens should be allowed to talk without sharing phone numbers. In a democracy, that question runs the other way
Sometime on July 2, a letter left the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology carrying one of the strangest regulatory questions ever put to a technology company. Addressed to Telegram and Signal, it asked, in essence: why should Indians be allowed to talk to each other without exchanging phone numbers?
