The Morning Context is an Indian tech and business publication reporting on startups, surveillance, investigations and regulation.
HN links it for its WhiteHat Jr exposé and Byju's coverage, and commenters want the article preserved before it is taken down.
Another one in India seems to be on this trajectory too:
Byju’s has no answer for its growing list of missing deadlines - https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/byjus-blackstone-oxshott-sumeru-ipo-financial-audit-morgan-stanley/
Byju’s losses swell to Rs 4,588 crore in delayed FY21 results - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/byjus-readjusts-revenue-for-fy21-to-rs-2280-crore-losses-swell-to-rs-4588-crore/articleshow/94198872.cms
Byju’s 2020-21 financials show it’s a house of cards. Record losses, declining revenue in key markets and questionable accounting practices paint a grim picture of India’s largest edtech company. - https://www.themorningcontext.com/internet/byjus-2020-21-financials-show-its-a-house-of-cards
The truth is much worse than this suggests: This recent article in The Morning Context gives a lot more detail as to why this company is absolutely unethical: https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/ [Requires sign in to read unfortunately]
WhiteHat Jr. is the sleaziest company to emerge from India's start-up ecosystem. They have used underhanded and unethical means to take down fair criticism online. They have used misleading and outright false advertising to sell their product to parents.
I can only hope that people wake up to how evil this company is.
WhiteHat Jr. abuses the DMCA and copyright policies to take down accounts and content. There was this article [1] where they detailed it really well (its a long article and requires login)
> It seems that fairly early on, WhiteHat Jr figured out that it can create temporary nuisance for everyone by reporting their video as a copyright or trademark infringement. Which is why after say, 15-30 days, several of Poonia’s videos were reinstated, after having been taken down.
[1] https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/
This is either misinformation or disinformation.
This set of new rules did not undergo legislative scrutiny at all. In fact, this is the main objection of multiple legal petitions about its constitutionality. Search for "IT rules 2021 ultra vires".
Two departments specifically advised the government that a new law was necessary. They were ignored. https://themorningcontext.com/chaos/did-pmo-get-its-way-on-indias-controversial-new-it-rules
Byju, one of Softbank’s flagship investments in India ($22B valuation at peak) is in a similar place. $290M worth of payments are pending to just AWS and a there’s a $1.2B loan left hanging.
https://themorningcontext.com/internet/byjus-is-in-the-throes-of-a-working-capital-crisis
Can someone please record this somewhere before it’s taken down permanently: https://themorningcontext.com/internet/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell