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India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

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Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

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Jio is not a monopoly by any stretch of imagination. My family is entirely on Airtel. No one has felt the need to switch. Among all my friends, only one person uses Jio.

... You realize that it set pricing across operators forcing literally every single one of them into losses?

No one can "realize" fake facts. Here are some real facts: https://assets.airtel.in/teams/simplycms/web/docs/Bharti_Air...

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Please read again. I said, that violence is the reason 100s of people are in delhi jail now (guilty or not). & Please read again. Modi Bhakats are wishing the 1984 style sikh killings, same as their Mother india's murder started. They are not on sides of Sikh, or Muslim, or even Indian. They want India to be a piss drinker's Hindu Rashtar. I am defending & one of those group, who want India, its government & operatin…

Sources, sources and not your disgustingly twisted propaganda. Who is wishing Sikh killings? God stop it.

Verified Source about killing wishes:

https://www.thequint.com/cyber/twitter-500-accounts-suspende...

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You asked for sources for Modi bhakats wishing death upon Sikhs in 1984 style. You literally asked Who is wishing Sikh Killings! I provided the sources. Only 6. There are millions of tweets & videos, where BJP RSS Hindu are saying We Miss Mother Indira.

If that’s the case, do you have a single source for any RSS leader saying that? How did you count there are millions of these tweets? How did you ascertain their origin?

I added a verified research source at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978040

Re: India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

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HN seems to be promoting only anti-India narratives these days. One of the outrageous comments is asking US persons to get involved in this. This is a direct attack on the sovereignty of India. Anyone questioning this line of thinking is getting flagged. The general consensus seems to be that the Western powers are paragons of justice who can dictate what other countries (note that India is a democracy. Most of these people asking to curb India are mum on the actions of countries like China, Pakistan and even the US.) can do to control protests. Combine this with who can flag the comments, HN is now nothing more than an echo chamber that seems to promote only one kind of narrative.

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> There was monopolies of mandis(farmer are restricted only to sell here) now government allows them to make contract or sell anywhere. You have no clue. Farmers were free before also to sell anywhere. Reliance is going to monopolize in agriculture also similar to what they have done with Telecom via Jio.

Agree. I have a BSNL net connection (with reliability going down from good to worse). Being public sectore, Central govt is accountable for BSNL quality. The way BSNL value is/was destroyed to promote Reliance... is now repeating elsewhere.

Why should the govt protect all the failing companies which give bad service while charging more? Most govt employees in these companies (used to)take their jobs for granted and the market showed them this.

Its reasons like this Dassault was not willing to give quality assurance if rafael was assembled by HAL [1].

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/rafale-jets-hal-...

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> Agriculture employs about half of India's 1.3 billion population I am not familiar with politics in India, so my question is: how does the BJP manage to push laws that (seem to) adversly affect the interest of half of the population? Isn't that political suicide for the BJP?

They stoke communal sentiments, pit Hindus vs Muslims, make it seem like the minorities are out to destroy the Hindus, and a vast majority of the population just laps it up. They have a giant misinformation network, which has recruited everybody from bots to popular actors to popular sportspeople and they spread out misinformation in a highly organized manner. Very effective at spreading FUD which translates into vot…

Many of the violent ones were khalistani terrorists[1].

[1]https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/republic-day-v...

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... You realize that it set pricing across operators forcing literally every single one of them into losses?

No one can "realize" fake facts. Here are some real facts: https://assets.airtel.in/teams/simplycms/web/docs/Bharti_Air...

You've linked me to a subsidiary [1] (that too one that sells telecom hardware)? Airtel the co has made 300M INR in losses for 2019-2020 [2]

[1]: https://www.emis.com/php/company-profile/IN/Bharti_Airtel_Se...

[2]: https://assets.airtel.in/teams/simplycms/web/docs/Airtel-Int...

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Lived in India in the 1980s - going there on a spiritual journey (yes, I know) and stayed for a few years. When I left the country, two events had occurred for which I don’t think I’ll be able to see that country in a good light ever again. The first was the anti-Sikh riots after Indira Gandhi’s murder. Politicians were compliant, including the newly elected PM Rajiv Gandhi who at the time famously said “When a tree…

Both the things you are talking about were perpetrated by the Congress party. The current crisis is also their gift. Why are you generalizing the country based on that? It seems you just witnessed these things but never understood why they happened and who were the perpetrators.

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No, I want to see RSS every year as much as a True Indian want to see Pakistan Independence Day parade. Never. RSS did not hoist Tiranga till 2002. Don't you know or you conveniently ignore?

Wow, that seems to be correct. I wonder why they would do that. In my childhood I went to an RSS school and we used to hoist the national flag all the time. Strange.

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No one can "realize" fake facts. Here are some real facts: https://assets.airtel.in/teams/simplycms/web/docs/Bharti_Air...

You've linked me to a subsidiary [1] (that too one that sells telecom hardware)? Airtel the co has made 300M INR in losses for 2019-2020 [2] [1]: https://www.emis.com/php/company-profile/IN/Bharti_Airtel_Se... [2]: https://assets.airtel.in/teams/simplycms/web/docs/Airtel-Int...

I linked you to Airtel's Indian telecom business, i.e. the business in direct competition to Jio. The document you linked to says it's about "Operations in 18 countries including India and Sri Lanka", offering many kinds of services unrelated to telecom.
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