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

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Post by Lol_mronsz_u »

oytis wrote: post #120
rtx wrote: post #89

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I think it started with US congress's opposition to Russian money in media. Now everyone is following that.

At least in Russia the law restricting foreign investment in media was passed in 2014. China probably never allowed foreign investment in media in the first place. India is just late to the dictatorship club - as little as I understand Indian politics, it was pretty democratic before the latest nationalist government.

Lol look this thread so ignorant, why would any country want it's population to get subverted by globalists ??? Just look at the history, don't make the same mistakes.

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Post by ashleshbiradar »

Dharmakirti wrote: post #109
manifestdissent wrote: post #101

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From Umberto Echo's famous hierarchy, we have a group that has an obsession with a plot for e.g. here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25207458 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208543 You've implied multiple times that there's something spooky going on without evidence The broader plot involves the identification of an outsider, in India's case it is muslims. The Other is identified as the source o…

> You've implied multiple times that there's something spooky going on without evidence Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. HuffPo is no saints and in the world of global info warfare, I wouldn't be so quick to give them a clean chit. See how Al Jazeera etc operate with a state backed agenda for an example. > A xenophobic movement with a... This is such an incoherent rant riddled with falsehoods without a…

SwarajyaMag doesn't sound like a credible source. It was recently black listed from Wikipedia, and isn't allowed as a source there.

plus https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swarajya/

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

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Post by oytis »

sa1 wrote: post #63
Dahoon wrote: post #57

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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).

> Local journalists are still free to write for foreign publications.

I don't know about India specifically, but in many countries working for the press gives you some special status. You are not supposed to be attacked by the police during protests, government officials owe some basic comment to you etc. Basically rights that allow you to do journalist's job legally and relatively safely. Foreign media probably don't enjoy the same privileges.

Also, when your freedom is being taken from you, finding loopholes doesn't really work in middle/long term. The regime has all the possibilities to close them one by one.

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Post by throw93 »

Props to newslaundry.com for posting this story. They show nuances that aren't covered by popular news channels in India. e.g. they explained Krishi(farmer) Bill, Citizenship Amendment Bill in a fun and logical way.

Meanwhile many popular TV news channels in India are busy shouting from top of their lungs to seek attention. It's hard not to damage your ears and logical thinking when listening to some Indian news channels. Ref - https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/trp-scap-indian-news-..., https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn9yjw/the-newshour-arnab-go...

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

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Post by naruvimama »

ashleshbiradar wrote: post #117
naruvimama wrote: post #98

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> 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.

there are dozens and dozens of businesses which are not profitable right now and burn a lot of cash, and yet they are operating. Almost all big startups dont make any profit.

But startups do not wind up their business because they expect a break through.

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

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Post by naruvimama »

manifestdissent wrote: post #105
naruvimama wrote: post #97

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You are the one labelling them, different countries have different histories. People usually labelled "Hindu right wing" by the english media have nothing in common with the western idea of conservative. They are strongly pluralistic, believe in smaller communities and tribes preserving their identity, nature loving, sympathetic to vegetarianism, not homophobic, not against abortion, strong believers in climate chang…

Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis established nature preserves. You had to ask for permission to experiment on a worm not the untermenschen. They funded programs to populate the forests of Europe with Big Game like Bison All political movements take the shape of the territory they occupy. When fascism arises it uses symbols of its host society. Indians won't use a phyrgian cap they'll use saffron

Would they be more "liberal" if they went around carrying out genocides, ethnic cleansing, destroying ancient temples and idols.

Indians are pluralistic and have preserved their unique pluralistic identities for 1000s of years against all odds. The world has seen the erasure of almost all the ancient civilisations and cultures.

How "liberal" of people who claim to stand with the rights of "red Indians" to preserve their identity and turning around to tell the "brown Indians" that they do not deserve an identity.

I am truly shocked by the hypocrisy/shallowness/ignorance of the self appointed "liberal elite".

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

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Post by naruvimama »

iamshs wrote: post #75
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

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.

As a "Hindu nationalist" I can assure you that no such thing is happening considering the only news to hit the front pages are usually negative news about India.

And I normally see a lot of the 'caste, cow & curry' crowd commenting quite "liberally".

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Post by [deleted] »

naruvimama wrote: post #127
iamshs wrote: post #75

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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.

As a "Hindu nationalist" I can assure you that no such thing is happening considering the only news to hit the front pages are usually negative news about India. And I normally see a lot of the 'caste, cow & curry' crowd commenting quite "liberally".

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Post by justforfunhere »

boruto wrote: post #116
justforfunhere wrote: post #71

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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.

Please read my comment again. I was talking about Upper Caste, well to do middle class.

Also this is not about supporting any political party. This is a problem embedded in our social culture. Income equality is a menace that hurts all those who are not well-off, irrespective of their caste or religion.

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