Internet in Kashmir is effectively blocked for more then a year.
India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
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#12There is always two sides to the story, here is a "protester" attacking a cop with a sword. They are coordinating attacks using whatsapp and other means. https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/singh...
I'm honestly not seeing two sides sorry. So a few people are breaking laws, you disconnect the internet? That's not two sides, that's only one side. If someone in my neighborhood is a criminal, they don't cut the power to my neighborhood and throw flair bombs at it. How is that the "other side"? Instead they just go after that criminal. To me it looks like a massive imbalance in power from one side over the other.
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#13There is always two sides to the story, here is a "protester" attacking a cop with a sword. They are coordinating attacks using whatsapp and other means. https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/singh...
You think this “sword attack” was coordinated by WhatsApp and therefore they should all be cut off?
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#14Sadly as much as I hate seeing essential communication links cut, though I don't have any data I am assuming a lot of people are going to buy in the public safety angle. It is not like the Indian state hasn't used that line of reasoning before for even bans lasting more than a year. Reading through the linked article on the violence related to the same protests that happened few days back reminded me of some tweets I…
Nope, complete propaganda by the Indian govt. I have family there so I can confirm. The Indian media is completely sold out to the govt and will only present highly selected and curated pictures. Social media is where they can't control the narrative. The Indian govt unleash sate sanctioned mobs on these protestors, desperate resort to break up the protest. Now they had to ensure that the truth stays under wraps. Hen…
I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I was talking about the protestors attacking cops of which there are a lot of videos on social media. The video I linked above shows them jumping from a fort to save themselves.
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#15There is always two sides to the story, here is a "protester" attacking a cop with a sword. They are coordinating attacks using whatsapp and other means. https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/singh...
I'm honestly not seeing two sides sorry. So a few people are breaking laws, you disconnect the internet? That's not two sides, that's only one side. If someone in my neighborhood is a criminal, they don't cut the power to my neighborhood and throw flair bombs at it. How is that the "other side"? Instead they just go after that criminal. To me it looks like a massive imbalance in power from one side over the other.
I am all for peaceful protests, the constitution has given every citizen the right to protest. But not at the cost of damage to the public property, rioting and violence. Jfyi, there is already case in supreme court of India to hear the grievances that they may have. But some political leaders are taking advantage of the situation to incite violence.
Please note, cops are human beings too, they have been asked not to use lethal force against the protestors.
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#16There is always two sides to the story, here is a "protester" attacking a cop with a sword. They are coordinating attacks using whatsapp and other means. https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/singh...
It would help your case to present a better source. As far as I know from Wiki source discussions for India sources like 'Republic', 'The Wire', Op something? tend to have extremely lopsided representation of events and facts.
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#17People don't like to say it, but it's just India's Hinduism versus the minorities (Sikhs and Muslims), a bunch of Indians here throwing excuses know what's up.
Also for the West, it's hard not to roll them all up in one category because inherently westerns do this with africans, asians, middle easterners
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#18Would this be legal in the US? It's one thing for a private entity to choose to not extend services to someone, but for the government to censor communication channels, I hope this would not be legal in the US?
I think BART was turning off the network during Oscar Grant protests.
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#19There is always two sides to the story, here is a "protester" attacking a cop with a sword. They are coordinating attacks using whatsapp and other means. https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/singh...
Republic World. haha
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#20Sadly as much as I hate seeing essential communication links cut, though I don't have any data I am assuming a lot of people are going to buy in the public safety angle. It is not like the Indian state hasn't used that line of reasoning before for even bans lasting more than a year. Reading through the linked article on the violence related to the same protests that happened few days back reminded me of some tweets I…
Nope, complete propaganda by the Indian govt. I have family there so I can confirm. The Indian media is completely sold out to the govt and will only present highly selected and curated pictures. Social media is where they can't control the narrative. The Indian govt unleash sate sanctioned mobs on these protestors, desperate resort to break up the protest. Now they had to ensure that the truth stays under wraps. Hen…
Complete propaganda here. The oligarchs and nationalists are pushing down the minorities (Sikhs, and Muslims and poor). A t the end of the day those funding Jio and other Oligarchs (Hi Mark, Hi Bond), will end up catching blame with a black swan event goes down. Follow the money, VCs and Facebook fund up these same oligarchs that press and kill hundreds of millions.