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Also easy to be a critic when the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world. There is a cost to inaction as well.


Hi. I'm an Indian saddled with an Aadhaar account. Am I allowed to be a critic?


Certainly. It's a free country after all. There's already an army of "critics" in Indian Supreme Court who want Aadhar to be thrown into the bin under Article 21.


It won't happen any time soon or even ever. There are already talks of a Universal Basic Income by two major parties. They need this kind of infrastructure to roll out their scheme soon.

In short it will be mostly activist rage on Twitter, and beyond that nothing much actually.


Remember: privacy invasion is always ok when no ones dying. When it gets that far, then anonymous comments online disappear.




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