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BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
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Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt it. A) Sunak can't just "pull the BBC into line" as it's independent of the government. B) The BBC regularly criticises the UK government and even the Royal family. If it could get a scoop on some new corruption it would air it as soon as it could. C) We also have people like Led By Donkeys here who air as much dirt as they can on the government. (We are not short of scandals right now, although few involve g…
a) That line of thinking was eviscerated with Johnson and Kussenberg. b) The BBC is biased against Labor and SNP as a growing number of Britons are coming to realise. Clearly towing the line in favor of the Tory party. c) Plenty of nations have such advocacy groups.
>>b) The BBC is biased against Labor and SNP as a growing number of Britons are coming to realise. Clearly towing the line in favor of the Tory party.
The BBC might not like the Labour Party (especially under Corbyn) but you can't deny it is 99% pro-left.
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#103Do India has the issue of "strict laws which are enforced selectively"?
Because this reminds me of the traffic light in Grozny, Chechnya that is always red, the people from the regime just ignore it but if someone undesirable doesn't obey the red light(they have no choice, the light is always red) they will face the wrath of the strict traffic code of Chechnya: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1595456040677556226
Similar approach was used in Turkey to take over the mainstream media from conglomerates. So they create very stick tax code which would be very hard to follow and the government doesn't care anyway and as a result people violate the code all the time. When these businessmen "misbehave", like one of their news channels goes a bit too hard on the government they send the tax people for an audit and uncover all the irregularities and slap a fine that would definitely bankrupt them and if the businessmen play ball most of the fine gets stripped away and goes back to business as usual. If the government loses faith with their ability to play ball or they think it would be better to take over the business, they move forward with the fine. That's how some of the larges businesses in the country were seized by the government or force-sold to government friendly businesspeople at a nice discount.
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#104The Two India: The Modi Question https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dkb144
This needs to be uploaded on Youtube, Facebook and other mediums where the govt will have to work harder to have it removed.
- India blocks the Modi documentary on YouTube, Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34466986
- YouTube is removing dislikes from Modi's video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342399
- Indian government wants total control of the Internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774823
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#105Is it just me, or are authoritarian regimes on the rise world-wide?
Yes, extreme ideologies (left and right wing) and authoritarian views are on the rise because of three factors playing out at the same time: 1. Globalisation showing its cracks and becoming increasingly clear to be the reason for the skyrocketing of inequality and the widening of the wealth gap between the rich and the poor 2. People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad with a constant str…
Where politicians lead, society will follow. If politicians are overtly selfish, it should be no surprise that society begins to shift in that same direction.
If it's ok for them, gimme some of that sugar too!
Having said that, maybe it's only the loud minority amplified by a desperate mainstream media making it appear that way?
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently it struck too close to home. Unleashing tax officials on an organization painting a negative picture (well, not, Modi and accoplice paint it, the BBC only presents it) is a failed attempt of masquerading an authoritarian government overstepping their limits of governance. If they were honest and not coward they would simply tell: 'Shouldn't uncover our dirty laundry, get out of here or will get hurt!' They…
> Unleashing tax officials on an organization painting a negative picture (well, not, Modi i and accoplice paint it, the BBC only presents it) is a failed attempt of masquerading an authoritarian government overstepping their limits of governance. Isn't that what every government do? Remember that Al Capone went to jail because of tax issues, the government couldn't prove anything he was accused to. If you look at Ge…
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-conservative/just...
> The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with dozens of conservative groups that claimed the Internal Revenue Service unfairly scrutinized them based on their political leanings when they sought a tax-exempt status, court documents showed.
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#107Not sure why the offices have been raided, corruption in Indian offices are not new, just because they are the BBC does not make its staff immune. The show itself adds nothing new in real evidence that can be taken to court, however there is a serious risk it create communal disharmony. Muslims and Hindus have found peace since the event, Indians see it as stirring the pot just before the 2024 elections.
> Muslims and Hindus have found peace since the event, So the 2020 anti-muslim Delhi riots didn't happen? Neither did the everyday Muslim lynchings across the country?
No just like the anti hindu riots in Bengal. But thats not the point, we are talking about Gujarati Hindus and Muslims, completely different state, language and people.
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#108I thought Modi is proud of his role in the riots and his followers know all this anyway?
When in his rule they all but acquit two of the most gruesome perpetrators of the riots on a technicality, you can ask that question I suppose. I won't: https://archive.is/Rs5rr / https://archive.is/QqqqK
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#109Not sure why the offices have been raided, corruption in Indian offices are not new, just because they are the BBC does not make its staff immune. The show itself adds nothing new in real evidence that can be taken to court, however there is a serious risk it create communal disharmony. Muslims and Hindus have found peace since the event, Indians see it as stirring the pot just before the 2024 elections.
If Muslims and Hindus have found peace then this would not create disharmony...
Because our friends have some nasty people in every community that are still willing to instigate and use this as a tool
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#110Not sure why the offices have been raided, corruption in Indian offices are not new, just because they are the BBC does not make its staff immune. The show itself adds nothing new in real evidence that can be taken to court, however there is a serious risk it create communal disharmony. Muslims and Hindus have found peace since the event, Indians see it as stirring the pot just before the 2024 elections.
I wonder what the Muslims in India think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Muslims_in_In...
An equivalent list could be made, just with the numbers of 400k Hindus that were exodus in Kashmir. Thats not the point, the point is the view from India is a British outlet like the BBC is meddling with Indian upcoming elections. There is already decades of suspicion around what the British did to create divides between Hindus and Muslims with partition, so this is treated with high suspicion.