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Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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Not that I support the intention of cops to go at his restaurant in the first place, in the article I read, he swung his knife at the cop as well.

You definitely do not want to believe the cop versions of the story. Cops in India have been planting fake evidence in the activists phones and they will go any length to prosecute those who fight the system

It's important to note that the cops partake such actions on the directions from higher-ups.

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This is the unfortunate reality of India; the government/police don't need to actually go to court. It can harass companies and executives by simply threatening to / actually carrying out unnecessary 'raids' through the tax department. The usual process is for the a bunch of policemen and beareaucrats to just show up unannounced; seal the office so that no one can enter or leave, and seize computers / phones, files a…

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How is this working against civil forfeiture?

How is this working against the % of the population incarcerated?

disclaimer: gun owner and competitive sport shooter.

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Not that I support the intention of cops to go at his restaurant in the first place, in the article I read, he swung his knife at the cop as well.

> Not that I support the intention of cops to go at his restaurant in the first place, in the article I read, he swung his knife at the cop as well. No the article says - Police "alleged" that he swung his knife as well, which he and his family denies. I don't know what really happened but it would be silly to solely rely on cop's version of events.

It would not be surprising to come into a restaurant kitchen and see the owner holding a big knife. He might even gesture without setting the knife down first.

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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You definitely do not want to believe the cop versions of the story. Cops in India have been planting fake evidence in the activists phones and they will go any length to prosecute those who fight the system

It's important to note that the cops partake such actions on the directions from higher-ups.

The Nuremberg defence?

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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India is weird. It's not really called authoritarian (rankings don't classify it as such), but there are many similar stories of government dysfunction and overreach. Maybe someone else has a word for them?

Corrupt is an appropriate word for this kind of behavior. The government does not officially condone the behavior, and it would probably function well if the policies were followed as written. But instead people get some power and abuse it. India is not unique, many countries struggle with corruption.

Corruption is large enough in India to have an entire political party dedicated to the issue (Aam Aadmi Party).

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post #76

This is the unfortunate reality of India; the government/police don't need to actually go to court. It can harass companies and executives by simply threatening to / actually carrying out unnecessary 'raids' through the tax department. The usual process is for the a bunch of policemen and beareaucrats to just show up unannounced; seal the office so that no one can enter or leave, and seize computers / phones, files a…

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That sure is a lot of nonsense. What we see in the US is the government, in the form of the police, abuses the people plenty. That's why there's so much protest when they actually kill people.

And are people arming themselves more to protect themselves from the police? No.

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The razorpay account on which altnews is on did not allow to accept payments from foreign countries.

Out of the payments done through Indian banks to altnews, the government is searching if there is a foreign IP address. The social media trolls are making an issue that altnews is being funded by terrorists from Syria and other countries

Any idea how much money came in from the so called terrorist wih Indian bank accounts with a foreign IP addresse? It's 2500$

It's a mere 2500$

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/sto...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livemint.com/news/india/alt...

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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While I have no sympathy for razorpay but I'd just like to point out that laws in India are much more heavy handed than a country like US. People are thrown in jail for social media posts and sometimes just for liking a social media post(1) Twitter has been having a very hard time operating in India too(2) and routinely censoring stuff so while IANAL just remember that things are very different in different parts of…

India is weird. It's not really called authoritarian (rankings don't classify it as such), but there are many similar stories of government dysfunction and overreach. Maybe someone else has a word for them?

>It's not really called authoritarian (rankings don't classify it as such) Because they serve US interest, especially against China. Despite "authoritarian" being a buzzword, you should maybe base your views on a country on your observations (such as the extreme violation of basic human rights in India regarding muslims, the fact that there are laws against muslim and hindu folks marrying, labelled as "love jihad", the fact that the government shot multiple people protesting against the government in 2020) and not on some obscure rankings, funded and made by US NGOs (see National Endowment for Democracy as a reference)

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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Not entirely true. - TV debates in India are charged and partisan. - Nupur Sharma was debating a man named Tasneem Rehmani. - Tasleem Rehmani said something denigrating towards a Hindu God (which is normal and typically goes unpunished and even unnoticed in India). - Nupur Sharma countered him by saying "Do not mock my religion. Do you want me to start talking about flying horses or the fact that your Prophet married…

> Islamic Whatsapp groups. > Prior to his arrest, he deletes several of his social media posts and tweets mocking Hindu Gods. You're literally peddling IT cell propaganda.

https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/zoo_bear

This website shows 99 deleted tweets between 26th and 27th June.

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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The state of police in India is so pathetic that the founder of altnews was arrested due to a tweet which tagged local police and shared a link from a post in 2018.

Interestingly the Twitter account was created recently with zero followers.

An investigation by www.wire.in found out the same person had 750+ Twitter accounts and is some sort of leader of the ruling party BJP

https://thewire.in/tekfog/altnews.html

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