If people in US can be misled by fake news, India stood little chance. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used effectively to brainwash the general public in India.

As Barack Obama described in his new book 'Promised Land', the chances of democracy surviving in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious poor country like India was precarious at best. BJP and RSS has effectively made sure that democracy dies in India

This is a problem in all cultures where proscriptivist philosophies have enough currency that people will actively oppose general purpose freedom. Democracy requires a willingness to tolerate differences of opinion and behavior.

> BJP and RSS has effectively made sure that democracy dies in India

That's a weird statement to make, considering that the current PM is a self-made man without any old money, family name or ivy league connections. Infact, most of the high ranking people in his cabinet are self-made men like him. The current Home Minister of India for example started his career as a polling-booth level canvasser in the party.

If a poor self-made man rising to the top in free and fair elections (results accepted by everyone) is a murder of democracy, then you need to find the correct definition of democracy.

> Infact, most of the high ranking people in his cabinet are self-made men like him.

We hear a lot about how the current government is less corrupt and less dynastic. But their actions say otherwise[1][2][3].

[1] https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/bjp-congress-political...

[2] https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/electoral-bonds-contro...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Kafeel_Khan

There are many examples of fascists who were self-made men. It doesn’t have anything to do with democracy at all.

+N. Its equally telling about the CEO as it is about Emil Michael.

+1000. You have hit the nail on the head.

Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.

I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.

Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

You mean, stocktwits?

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.

If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.

Make sure to resubmit with [FIXED] so I can give it a shot.