Source: https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/what-is-a-digital-platformScholarship about digital platforms has concentrated on economic and labour-related issues (Burbano 2021; Arnoldi, Bosua and Dirksen 2021). India’s ban on TikTok and other Chinese apps can be seen as an example of such cases where diplomacy and inter-state relations took a digital platform turn. Such forms of, what I call, ‘platform diplomacy’ are still underexplored in the scholarship of digital platforms. However, the neoliberal globalised capitalist state often contradicts the values of the global free market when it pushes to regulate digital platforms or even ban them in their nation-state. This attack on Telegram attempts to force Telegram to share data with the government.

Source: Indian Express November 18, 2024 09:29 UTC