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Re: HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms

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Post by ashleshbiradar »

amriksohata wrote: post #44
ashleshbiradar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a big chunk of the mainstream traditional media in India is pro-establishment and pro-government. Digital news organizations were predominantly anti-establishment, thus the efforts by the government to toe the organizations to its line. First it introduced the FDI regulations for foreign media as mentioned in the article. Second they have recently proposed to bring Digital news organizations and streaming platforms u…

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

if you would care to notice, most of the criticism comes from authoritarian countries or countries that have a known history of violating human rights.

Israel( issues related to Palestine) China( I dont think I need to mention anything) US( Guantánamo Bay ) Russia (again, authoritarian)

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Post by sa1 »

Dahoon wrote: post #57
throwaway4good wrote: post #35

I don't quite understand this. Why can't HuffPost India just not simply operate from the US?

You need local journalists to write local news.

> You need local journalists to write local news.

Local journalists are still free to write for foreign publications. What stops them now?

From what I see, this rule is trivially bypassed.

Imagine BBC UK having a India section, and buying stories from Indian journalists(which they already do).

Re: HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms

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Post by throwaway4good »

Dahoon wrote: post #57
throwaway4good wrote: post #35

I don't quite understand this. Why can't HuffPost India just not simply operate from the US?

You need local journalists to write local news.

You just hire some local journalists to write for the American based HuffPost.

Why would that be a problem?

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Post by manifestdissent »

square_usual wrote: post #55
manifestdissent wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The country has become nationalistic to a nonsensical degree. I’ve met multiple people who have refused to use PayTM because they think it is Chinese. This won’t end well.

That is really funny to me, because PayTM's founder is supposedly very tight with the BJP, and they also rode the demonetization wave hard with the full-page ad featuring Modi.

Fascism rarely has any internal consistency or meaning. It’s an ideology of hate towards the other and sucks to be you if you’re the other.

It’s not surprising that they turned on him. If he had bothered to read history, he’d have read what happens to most supporters and collaborators of such regimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

Fascists are an ouroboros of hate. They all eat themselves.

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Post by pmachinery »

amriksohata wrote: post #42
rainingcatndogs wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But unfortuanately(as a side effect?) policies like this hinders the operations of goodwill nonprofits like Amnesty International[1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/amnesty-to-hal...

Goodwill is a strong word with Amnesty International, as they have a political side[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati...

From your link: "Governments that have criticised AI include those of Israel, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, China, Vietnam, Russia, Chile and the United States".

What's their political side?

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Post by FlyingSnake »

manifestdissent wrote: post #47

The nationalism in these comments isn’t surprising. But it is disappointing. Several comments are implying that HuffPo is an influence operation or conspiracy... ??? There’s a clear boogeyman (the Chinese) and a grand arching conspiracy stopping the country from being great. This is fascism 101

I find it highly amusing that the same HN hivemind that rallied behind Peter Thiel's takedown of Gawker are calling a legal move by a sovereign democratic country fascism. Perhaps we need to drop this western gaze when analyzing events in the East?

> They(Gawker) have no moral high ground, noble principles, or higher purpose. They're scum, and it's pure karma that they're being destroyed by someone they outed.[1^]

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774716

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Post by SiempreViernes »

AntiImperialist wrote: post #48
mulmen wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't the WHO literally do a house call to the entire country of India in their ultimately successful quest to eradicate smallpox? I wouldn't rush to condemn international aid. You put scare quotes around both aid and news. Neither of these things are inherently bad. Misinformation is the threat, not simply foreign information. Government control of media is not a remedy to misinformation. In fact it is frequently a…

Any country that tries to pull back from the rest of the world will suffer in comparison. Well, China has greatly benefited from doing exactly that. They greatly regulate and control foreign influence while they exert their influence every where they can. India is a big rival and they have been funding everything from the Naxalites (the underground Indian communist organization) to mainstream parties, organizations,…

China doesn't have a isolation strategy, they have a control strategy: foreigners that follow their rules are very welcome, as opposed to simply banned from visiting. Its strange to call a country with a clearl export focus "isolationist".
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