JNU cuts electricity to prevent screening of BBC series on PM Modi, students turn to phones
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Thanks for all this it’s very helpful!
If they are going to this extent to try and silence it I definitely need to watch it!
that's called the streisand effect
and what will happen when the government announces a tiktok ban
Tor?
How was it?
Honestly it was interesting from a cultural standpoint but beyond that it was mostly your standard bbc documentary.
As an indian, could you tell what it is in the documentary that people are so mad about? Virtually no friend of mine had been talking about it
It basically ties modi to a mass riots in 2002 and the bjp party. The strange part is it wasn’t that hard on modi and seemed to from my point of view downplay his involvement in it. Half of it was interviews with people who where involved that was the interesting part tbh. As far as the politics it really pined it more on bad blood over the conflict over between Muslims and Hindus more then modi him self.
This is my take on it with little knowledge of Indian politics.
This doesn't really make sense to me. If it was just the usual hindi Muslim stuff, then why would the modi government want this banned. It doesn't him directly. And, is modi even the one who approves or initiates the bans? Stuff like this surfaces a few times a year on international forums and has every outraged, but I can never really get the reason for it.
I think I'll go and try see the documentary myself.
Maybe someone is finally harnessing the Streisand Effect...
Was it any good?
And?
It's as if people in power never heard of the Streisand effect
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Next week it’s gonna be called the Modi effect
I grew up near Beaufort, SC and when she was there filming Prince of Tides on Fripp Island, she famously attempted to contact the MCAS there about the noise from practice maneuvers.
Anecdotally the air station found out her location and made sure that they always flew over her rented house.
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This Modi doc has blown up way bigger than it should have.
Somebody needs give the Indian PM a documentary on the Streisand Effect... Because so far his response has been so over the top he's making Ol' Babs seem like a social media genius.
Why do we want to help him learn how to conceal his crimes better?
Why do you think it was not the intended effect of the ban?
PM doesn't care.. it's his party workers and diehard fans that are going crazy
But he really should speak up and stop this nonsense
Tell me you have something to hide without telling me you have something to hide.
I definitely do not have any gerbil-related stories involving an emergency room.
Where's lemmiwinks?
Richard?
What about hamsters? 🐹
the second episode is probably even more damaging to his reputation, noting that he’s tried to get india to forget about the large scale dissenting movement and state-sanctioned riots which took place in 2019, only to be cut short by the pandemic. and now everyone can relive that brutality and remember who he is and what he does
Dude I had forgotten about the farmer strike! Damn.
Just wanna say that the farmer's strike was instigated by the large mandi owners who wanted to keep a monopoly over the individual farmers' produce. Other than that, the criticism of modi here is perfectly valid.
Makes sense, but the problem was the method of implementation - you do not make drastic changes like these in a democracy without consulting farmers and taking into considerations all its impacts, which the framing of the amendments showed were several.
What's sad is that there was a large survey done with the farmers across India on whether they wanted better prices and security against big farmers. A majority wanted these things and that's how the bill started. The large farmers who owned the mandis to which the small farmers sold all their stuff to just gaslighted the farmers into rioting.
So the farmers will I'll informed and manipulated?
They have no internet, barely working electricity, and most don't have smartphones. The farmers have to either deal with 5 middleman in a process to sell the product, or sell it to the mandi, which is controlled by a large farmer who has very high commission rates.
The government tried to standardize prices, which was higher than what the farmers got from mandis and sold to the government directly, at which the mandi owners got furious over.
Son what ended up happening?
Nothing. The government passed the bill, but had to repeal it a year later. The farmers remained poor, and the rich farmers retained their monopoly. Let's be honest, those people are only farmers in name as they don't even manage their farms. The whole reason they're farmers is to get tax cuts as farmers aren't taxed. The mandi owners won in the end.
In short, the farmers are misinformed and think the government has got it out for them and that those rich mandi owners are the only ones protecting them.
This is so obviously wrong, and all world leaders do it. If someone in power prevents you from talking about them, especially in an examining or critical way, they’re likely frauds trying very hard to control messaging. Some might say ‘duh’, but a good number of my countrymen believe their politicians are being truthful with them.
I hope the people begin seeing these obvious signs of dishonesty and start adjusting accordingly, the world over.
Guess one could say Modi wants to be Untouchable.
Streisand affect incoming
I’m sure there are many others like me who didn’t care about this doc but now are very interested in watching it.
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Thank you! I’ll check it out!
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Looks like India is going the dictatorial way like its red neighbour.
That's insane. Modi sounds like a dictator.
Killing businesses, and putting lives in danger, so their PM doesn't look bad and to censor information to the public. India... wtf happened to you?
There was an attempt to out tech younger adults.
I've been trying to watch this. Does anybody have a non-dodgy link? In the US, btw.
Guessing Modi has never heard of the Streisand effect. If he wants to block it this badly, it has to be pretty damning.
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Barbra Streisand Effect wins again.
Can someone give me a non-politicized summary of what is in this film?
Wow this is active censorship for the benefit of a politician. Gross
download from the internet and project and blast it loud
I don’t know much about India political discourse but I was shocked after their election cycle how many died from Covid and the funeral pyres the followed shook me to the core.
I saw the title and I just LOL'd. I mean, it doesn't get more hilarious that this.
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Time and time again this happens and people simply don't understand that banning will only make something more attractive and create more radicals. People are naturally empathetic, so of fucking course they will side with the side being oppressed.
Now I will definitely watch it, didn't even know about it before India went all Streisand bonkers about it.
Indians and their pride.
How is this technology news?
How does censorship work
Pls do explain the technology ?
Because India used its internet laws to censor it.
Still doesn’t answer my question.. how is that technology
It’s literally called the Information TECHNOLOGY Act of 2000 bro
The whole jamat has descended on reddit today. Try posting this on something like /law then
I’m literally clarifying a legal point and you’re calling me Muslim (which I’m not). You guys have like ONE argument bro. When you can’t counter factual arguments, just call them Muslim and feel smug. Lol.
Arrey bhaisahab, lets not pollute the technology forum with whatever political or legal agendas you have . As a refresher this is the technology forum and not the legal forum. Trust this clarifies.
No it doesn’t. This forum also deals with technology regulation and legislation. YOU have a problem with something that doesn’t suit YOUR agenda being posted here.
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Happy to argue point by point on this on a more appropriate forum. Btw speaking of law , what does the supreme court have to say on this . If this was not just random political agenda you would understand. Worse is you would pollute all political forums with this nonsense
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I seriously wouldn’t have even heard of it if it wasn’t for the ban but instead I watched it.