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Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by yinyang_in »

asenna wrote: post #5

The media control and censorship here in India is definitely getting our of hand! Setting aside the absolute criminal mismanagement and planning of the Covid situation in the past few months, the fact that the people in power are still applying their brains and might into figuring out how to manipulate the narrative and how to squash dissent in this moment when the country is going through an unimaginable disaster. J…

First the wire is known to be very alt-left but even then the patient didn't had any requirement for oxygen, his grandfather died of heart-attack. Not sure which part of article or twitter thread says a normal guy got screwed up ?

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Post by lindy2021 »

The entire world is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed. The capitol of the free world is surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty.

We can't expect developing countries to uphold democracy as it dies in the west.

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Post by ceejayoz »

yinyang_in wrote: post #21
asenna wrote: post #5

The media control and censorship here in India is definitely getting our of hand! Setting aside the absolute criminal mismanagement and planning of the Covid situation in the past few months, the fact that the people in power are still applying their brains and might into figuring out how to manipulate the narrative and how to squash dissent in this moment when the country is going through an unimaginable disaster. J…

First the wire is known to be very alt-left but even then the patient didn't had any requirement for oxygen, his grandfather died of heart-attack. Not sure which part of article or twitter thread says a normal guy got screwed up ?

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...

> Often a person who is having a heart attack is given oxygen, which also helps heart tissue damage to be less.

COVID isn't the only disease that requires oxygen.

Re: Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by lindy2021 »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #17
rodgerd wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

COVID is a catastrophe in India because the government's core is religious extremism and other forms of bigotry, and those have driven its response, including cabinet members promoting folk remedies above vaccines and encouraging large religious gatherings (including an upcoming one).

I guess in America there is a lot of the same with some groups of people believing they can pray the virus away or that it simply doesn't exist and is part of some satanic cults agenda.

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Post by ethbr0 »

lindy2021 wrote: post #22

The entire world is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed. The capitol of the free world is surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty. We can't expect developing countries to uphold democracy as it dies in the west.

I think that says less about democracy and more about the US' former president.

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Post by nawgz »

lindy2021 wrote: post #22

The entire world is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed. The capitol of the free world is surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty. We can't expect developing countries to uphold democracy as it dies in the west.

Well, it kinda died in developing countries because of the west too. There was a sweet spot in human history where communication was strong enough and technology limited enough where some many groups managed to find themselves on the brink of democracy, and the USA and other powerful bully nations replaced those regimes to keep the exploitative world order.

It's no surprise with a house of cards like that that it all eventually collapsed. Extremely depressing though.

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Post by lindy2021 »

rodgerd wrote: post #11
mancerayder wrote: post #9

Shocking. What do the pro censorship people say all the time when defending Facebook or Twitter: speech is free but not free from consequences. I believe that's the line.

The Indian government's position is perfectly in line with so-called free speech defenders: they are shutting down illegal content, not applying their own judgement.

When you can define the laws, any content you dislike becomes "Illegal content".

Re: Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by asenna »

I've always wanted to ask the HN community about this problem, what exactly can be done from a technology standpoint?

I feel we're already at a point where tools are available to make a censorship resistant social network.

The main challenges would be: - Kickstarting a network is a difficult problem - A way to ensure sane content moderation (child porn / abuse, etc) while still keeping the decision-making decentralized enough - Easy enough for the first time mobile internet users to onboard

Would love to hear your thoughts. In my opinion a blockchain based solution seems appropriate (I know there's a lot blockchain-hate on HN but requesting for constructive comments).

I know something needs to come up soon because the situation on the ground is actually quite bad.

Re: Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by innagadadavida »

amrrs wrote: post #4

Indian Government recently made Twitter do similar things. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/26/twitter-under-... Do you know what's worst? A guy was booked yesterday for Tweeting he needed oxygen cylinders which according to a state government is spreading fake news. https://thewire.in/government/amethi-up-police-arfa-khanum-s... While COVID hasn't been kind to the people of India, The current regime's atte…

Is there some service in India that actually delivers oxygen cylinders when you tweet? If you are in dire need to oxygen, the last thing you’d be doing is tweeting.

The irony is that elections that were held is the biggest cause for this spike and the government did not oppose or stop that.

Re: Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by yinyang_in »

lindy2021 wrote: post #22

The entire world is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed. The capitol of the free world is surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty. We can't expect developing countries to uphold democracy as it dies in the west.

This I find is true, globalisation is eventually failing as imo it was always about cheap labour never anything elss and nationalism is on rise. Every country protects rights, America being leader of free world have those patriotic acts where they stopped raw material in name of America first(full blown nationalism), that too when leader is from by democrat party(left)

Nationalism is on rise even Germany's chancellor gave some taste of it(on parma industry comment), but still democracy is all good in india as I see, where to do you see democracy falling in india?

P.s. pardon my english, still learning.

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