Internet in Kashmir is effectively blocked for more then a year.
Exactly, this is the same thing. Hindu nationalist govt controlling media narrative.
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#22There 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.
Fair enough but I am not sure which news outlet can be considered "credible" these days. FWIW, here is Time of India. You can search "Singhu border SHO attack", there are plenty of news portals reporting it.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/farmers-protest-in...
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#23Well that sure is a case for Starlink.
You think Elon Musk wouldn't cut starlink for folks if they were striking? Really?
Are you perhaps referring to the emerald-inheritance-richy-rich child-slave-loving-cobalt-mining 3rd-world-tweet-coup-leading union-busting-racist-workplace-of-terror-managing thai-pedo-twitter-bully covid-denier Elon that weird homeless hippy writers, wallstreetbros and proud-moms who didn't buy any $TSLA like to get their outrage chubs for?
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#24There 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
I can understand your cynicism, but a simple Google search will show plenty of news portals reporting the same news.
Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
#25There 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...
Pasting a Republic link is incredibly disingenuous because they frequently peddle fake news, not to mention, are extremely biased towards the current government, so much that their main person had access to sensitive intelligence information.
Search: "arnab leaked chats"
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> I am all for peaceful protests, the constitution has given every citizen the right to protest
They have been peaceful protesting for literally months now. One bad incident does not mean anything and there is a lot of information about how the government goons infiltrated the protests.
If you are all for peaceful protests, you wouldn't single out one single incident but that's exactly what you are doing and I think it's malicious. Which you are free to do, but please don't pretend otherwise.
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#28Sadly 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…
It’s sad since the majority of the protest was peaceful. There’s even the usual sorry state where reporters actively told camera men to stop rolling when they accidentally captured police caning protestors.
The capitol insurrection angle is also a new line being tested in the media for consumption.
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#29Is it fair to say that the pandemic has brewed more protests than ever, not just in India but worldwide? It's not to diminish the issues, but the pandemic is adding fuel? Most countries around the world are facing protests all simultaneously after the pandemic (except China)?
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#30There 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...
There's also more to a story than a single picture. What happened before? If cops are going to attack protesters or stand by while gangs are allowed to attack protesters, don't be surprised if they get their shit pushed in.