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India really needs a stern kick in the back from the West to stop is continuing authoritarian tendencies and its slide into becoming a nominal democracy like Turkey and Iran.
Didn't take long for the racist colonialists to crawl out of the woodworks, did it?
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
HN has been flooded by Hindu Nationalists. Every topic about India I comment on, not only it gets downvoted pretty heavily but typical conspiracy theories get thrown. It is really disappointing, you are right.
Playing a devil's advocate here, would you think there's another side to the debate? India is no binary system like US and is a thriving and functioning democracy. I understand the penchant for people to downvote dissent, but could there be another side to the argument rather than "Indian's are Hindu Nationalists"?
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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…
a big chunk of the mainstream traditional media in India is pro-establishment and pro-government And? Why would you not be pro your own government? Should the media be against the government that people elect and which protects people's rights? Should the media be pro foreign governments and agencies?
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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,…
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From personal experience, most Indians in the tech space are conservative-leaning. I don't network a lot, but I do talk to people enough to know that "liberal" in the western sense is a very rare viewpoint in this industry. E: I should mention that I am Indian.
I would go one step further and say that most Indians in the tech space come from Upper Caste, well to do Middle Class families with enough money to give them a comfortable chance at getting into a decent college in India/Abroad. This gives them a sense of entitlement that is very hard to shake off. This also makes them partially blind to the kind of hardship most poor Indians have to face and live with for the entir…
Take your propaganda to somewhere else.
Before I am name called I would say I am not a BJP supporter.
Whether HuffPost was popular in India is besides the point. To provide some contrast, the same govt amended a law originally designed to prohibit foreign funding of political parties and changed it to allow funding from local companies which have more than 50% foreign ownership. So basically political parties can indirectly accept foreign funds through above loophole which the ruling party itself created but news org…
> Whether HuffPost was popular in India is besides the point It is central, if they were popular and making money or if they were popular and have a wonderful future prospects, they wouldn't have to be propped up. And whoever is funding it could be motivated by not so charitable reasons.
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I would go one step further and say that most Indians in the tech space come from Upper Caste, well to do Middle Class families with enough money to give them a comfortable chance at getting into a decent college in India/Abroad. This gives them a sense of entitlement that is very hard to shake off. This also makes them partially blind to the kind of hardship most poor Indians have to face and live with for the entir…
I completely disagree with this comment. I am from the so called privileged upper caste who father had to ride a rickshaw to send me to college. I still remember thinking to join some other college because the fee was raised in 2008. Take your propaganda to somewhere else. Before I am name called I would say I am not a BJP supporter.
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I completely disagree with this comment. I am from the so called privileged upper caste who father had to ride a rickshaw to send me to college. I still remember thinking to join some other college because the fee was raised in 2008. Take your propaganda to somewhere else. Before I am name called I would say I am not a BJP supporter.
sure, whatever your personal experience may be. You can not deny the existence of caste based inequality in a country like India. It exists.
Where in my comment did I deny it. I agree it exists. Should I list my every other belief in this comment. So you do not accuse me of something which I did not say?
I just makes me angry when people say all uppercaste are rich and powerful. It belittles the experiences my father had during my childhood.
I usually ignore threads like this, But this is HN turning into twitter threads. I would not comment in this anymore.
Funny how all the authoritarian governments are following the same script. Restricting foreign investment in media while keeping the inland investors under control sounds a lot like my native Russia.
I think it started with US congress's opposition to Russian money in media. Now everyone is following that.
India is just late to the dictatorship club - as little as I understand Indian politics, it was pretty democratic before the latest nationalist government.