How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights

> This is the same argument as “If you don’t like the way they collect data, why don’t you stop using an iPhone/GMail/Social Media”. Reasonable legislation eventually notice that this extreme form of libertarianism can hurt people, because of the imbalance of the negotiating power. Note that car manufacturers must install seat belts; they don’t get to say “if you think our car is unsafe, just buy another”.

Too much power in too few hands leaves no alternative.

Seems the colleges that don’t engage in this practice could run ads “we aren’t a jail” and shame the market into a correction?

While India is culturally diverse in some ways, it is also very culturally homogenous in different ways. Because Indian society generally agrees that young adults should be closely watched until about 21-23 the relative lack of some freedoms is accepted as normal.

There seems to be more to this story than what is being told.

I love how Silicon Valley and Hacker News is a west coast thing so other parts of America are irrelevant but there's an exception for India. Of course, all the Big Tech corporations are filled with them so it suddenly becomes relevant in this forum.