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What if Alphabet calls the bluff and stops serving all of their services in the market. The population would know why which wouldn't be a good look for leaders. Google is too invested in $earch to call a bluff though.
Google has competitors in the search space so it's understandable why they're afraid of calling bluffs. And from what I understand Youtube isn't profitable by itself.
You feel that's horrible? Sure, that's your right. But the moral universalism of the anglophone cultural sphere has long alienated a majority of Indians exposed to it, that at this point their opinions do not get any goodwill from Indians.
Progressive media has published enough news that run absolutely opposite to the lived experience of a majority of the Indians that at this point they don't give a crap.
I would even say that every report of far-right authoritarianism of Modu's India liberal media publishes, greater the support for Modi from Indians. I say this as someone who thinks of him as an absolutely mediocre administrator.
It seems to be a common issue among liberal anglophones to confuse democracy with liberal democracy.
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What if Alphabet calls the bluff and stops serving all of their services in the market. The population would know why which wouldn't be a good look for leaders. Google is too invested in $earch to call a bluff though.
Google has competitors in the search space so it's understandable why they're afraid of calling bluffs. And from what I understand Youtube isn't profitable by itself.
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> I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something While I'm just as displeased with India censoring stuff for the rest of us, keep in mind that for most of the world, Google/YouTube is that censorious foreign entity.
Is this because of DMCA/copyright takedowns or something else?
The documentary produced by the BBC "The Modi Question", was uploaded onto YouTube several times the week of release but taken down by request of the Indian Government. I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something if they don't like it, it wasn't just geo blocked it was removed off YouTube.
The documentary produced by the BBC "The Modi Question", was uploaded onto YouTube several times the week of release but taken down by request of the Indian Government. I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something if they don't like it, it wasn't just geo blocked it was removed off YouTube.
But it's on the iPlayer and works perfectly? So you can watch it in your own country https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dkb144
The Indian people want the government to have total control over the internet. You feel that's horrible? Sure, that's your right. But the moral universalism of the anglophone cultural sphere has long alienated a majority of Indians exposed to it, that at this point their opinions do not get any goodwill from Indians. Progressive media has published enough news that run absolutely opposite to the lived experience of a…
> You feel that's horrible? Sure, that's your right
Of course it is horrible. Thanks to the free internet (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook) we can further promote our interests. Sincerely, the NSA /s
The documentary produced by the BBC "The Modi Question", was uploaded onto YouTube several times the week of release but taken down by request of the Indian Government. I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something if they don't like it, it wasn't just geo blocked it was removed off YouTube.
That documentary is based on fake news and intended to destabilize India's social harmony. The arguments it makes have been rejected by the supreme court of India.
The documentary produced by the BBC "The Modi Question", was uploaded onto YouTube several times the week of release but taken down by request of the Indian Government. I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something if they don't like it, it wasn't just geo blocked it was removed off YouTube.
That documentary is based on fake news and intended to destabilize India's social harmony. The arguments it makes have been rejected by the supreme court of India.