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Your .IN domain is probably one of the worst possible choices of all ccTLD to claim that you can publish things on it without fear of reprisals or censorship, be assured that something bad would happen to it or you personally if you happened to run afoul of any powerful people in the Indian government (or oligarchs).

Something like .NL (you do not need to be a Dutch national to register) or .IS would be much more legally resilient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

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Maybe crossroadsguy lives in India. By using your home country's ccTLD, you have only one source of censorship instead of two.

I mean he's probably fine as long as he does absolutely nothing to challenge the status quo or anyone powerful in India. Which doesn't really seem like an optimal situation for a censorship resistant domain. There's a vast quantity of examples of Indian state and federal government authorities issuing court orders to "remove" content from the internet over the past 25+ years. Take a look at some of the citations in the Wikipedia page I linked.

Someone living in India would have to follow Indian court orders regardless of where their domain was registered.

Another TLD would mean obeying laws and court orders in another country as well