As long as desi OSINT community keep assuming that BJP & GoI is part of the solution, they will go nowhere in finding a solution, because they are wasting their energies on a moot point. in the first place BJP is a political party and has no role to play in this scenario, people assuming BJP is part of the equation are simply wasting their time without understanding the roles and responsibilities of each player in the game.
As far GoI is concerned, why would they get involved for anonymous social media accounts, especially when there is no such policy in place. we are not Pak.
Foreign anti-india western OSINT accounts are mostly liberals i.e democrats, when they got taken down they didn't blame Democrat party or U.S Govt, but focussed their entire energies on defaming Indian Govt during their ban period, even though GoI had nothing to do with their ban, there is no way they didn't know that.
Sure, Indian OSINT will have to find their own solution path, but no point wasting time on elements that are not part of the equation. OSINT is a niche area, let go of the maai-baap expectations.
The previous comment was a convergence of two issues OSINT + Information war.
> Why BJP is being blamed?
Because they are in power, GOI, they are not taking actions against blatant propaganda, no cyber warfare wing nothing....This is the issue with GOI.
Interests and work of BJP are intertwined with India/Hindus right now, during Anti-hindu riots in Delhi, it was Indian Hindus who were blamed within India but outside it was shown as India doing pogrom, and BJP could neither defend it's MLA nor GOI could clarify or handle the saheen bagh situation, information part.
> We are not Pak?
Yes are not doesn't mean we should not look after our national interests, data is new oil everyone says that but what has GOI lead by BJP done about protection free flow of oil outside India? Nothing. My only issue is why we are allowing the companies SM to pelt one-sided propaganda, blatant anti-India propaganda, from BBC to handles like Swine, etc. etc.
How come BBC and likes of Al-jazeera were given free hand to pelt propaganda against India/Hindus but likes of Sudarshan news were made to crawl and give up? Why this bias?
You either give free hand to all the sides or stay mum.
> Agree with OSINT part to much extent, we need more of them, more people in defense to propagate information of all sorts but we also have to do something about the witch hunt that is going on against them, one-sided witch hunt rn which can be if GOI wanted can be reduced or limited if we tried leveraging our biggest in the free-world userbase.
> One of the reason i am stressing on religion because be west or pakis or any other else, it's one of the best way to propagate an agenda, rn Hindus are being targetted in India, whites in USA so on, to counter this GOI at least try to create an equal ground, if propaganda is coming from international players then it can be countered in similar fashion, for internal politics BJP will have to feed it's own people + rw ecosystem will have to fight their own but at least a common equal ground should be there.
> Last point i still think we need to overhaul our media, be it left or right they are not adding anything of value which can be beneficial to the nation.
> One more point, one of the way to counter foreign sm is by promoting our own Indian alternative, it can be achieved, we are 1/5th of the whole Human Population on Earth, if we can meet our own demands then it in itself will be a big win, we need another 'green-revolution' type scenario in 'information-technology' area.