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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

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Post by kinleyd »

adwww wrote: post #117
capableweb wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here And if you happen to be belong to the rest of the ~99.13% world population, you can grab it here: Episode 1 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3C378A82CF67A1107523CA6C647077403A1EF74D&dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E01+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A…

Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.

You'd be surprised.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

miroljub wrote: post #95
mihaaly wrote: post #81

Earlier 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…

>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.

Yes to varying extends and with varying frequencies. No government is perfectly clean in this regard though some are much better than others. Comfortably wealthy westerners who've never been harassed by any government or quasi-government institutions will happily write of their own governments small amount of it though because that's more comforting than realizing we do it too and having the tough discussion of where the line ought to be.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by mihaaly »

miroljub wrote: post #95
mihaaly wrote: post #81

Earlier 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…

> Isn't that what every government do?

The question should rather be: Is this a good thing or abusing the power?

(Al Capone did tax fraud on a spectacular level, among other more serious offenses. BBC shown a documentary. Feel the difference?)

Also: billion flies eating shit will not make it a good thing. :/

Bad habbit should be a repelling thing not something be repeated and brought forward as excuse for gods sake!

(I cannot tell if the above examples for abuse are founded or not, except Al Capone, my response is for this 'other do so I will too' kind of derailed rhetoric or alibi that I hate so so much)

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by [deleted] »

adwww wrote: post #117
capableweb wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here And if you happen to be belong to the rest of the ~99.13% world population, you can grab it here: Episode 1 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3C378A82CF67A1107523CA6C647077403A1EF74D&dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E01+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A…

Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.

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Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by rmbyrro »

adwww wrote: post #117
capableweb wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here And if you happen to be belong to the rest of the ~99.13% world population, you can grab it here: Episode 1 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3C378A82CF67A1107523CA6C647077403A1EF74D&dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E01+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A…

Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.

They'll have ChatGPT sort it for them.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by Lio »

s_dev wrote: post #75
Lio wrote: post #55

Earlier 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.

Nice use of "eviscerated" there, I like that.

I don't think it's true though, as evidenced by the Tory media minister Nadine Dorries doing everything she could to de-fund the BBC for criticism of the Johnson government.

She wouldn't do that if the BBC was a Tory mouthpiece under her control.

Just saying that "a growing number of Britons are coming to realise" something doesn't really tell you much. That could be 3 people yesterday and 4 people today.

The BBC criticises both sides of the political fence and both groups complain about it being biased against them.

If it was truly biased to the Tories, people like Frankie Boyle wouldn't get BBC shows and Ian Blackford wouldn't regularly be quoted on the Today Programme or PMQs.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by sn41 »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #57
s_dev wrote: post #24

Modi should have funded an Indian documentary on the financing of Rishi Sunak and his wife as a way of silencing criticism -- Tories would pull BBC in to line pretty quick then. Seems those with dirty hands are quick to point the finger.

This Modi? "Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed Infosys and Sudha Murthy, chairperson of Infosys Foundation, as he expressed gratitude to them for their service to humanity."

I think you did not clarify the connection sufficiently. Sudha Murthy is the mother-in-law of Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister. She is quite an accomplished engineer, and also the wife of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by wkat4242 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #42
pell wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolute Streisand-Effect here.

Barbra Streisand faces an unclear tradeoff between publicizing the pictures of her home that already exist and encouraging the future taking of unwanted photographs of her home. Modi has much, much, much more reason to fear that tolerating one scandal-raising documentary will lead to further scandal-raising documentaries, and much less reason to believe that ignoring the problem he already has will make it go away. I…

The Streisand effect isn't about a 1:1 comparison of the two cases.

It's just about calling attention to something few people would have noticed by being really heavy-handed in trying to take it down.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by luma »

miroljub wrote: post #95
mihaaly wrote: post #81

Earlier 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…

> Almost every government has a history of unleashing a tax department on their political enemies

Financial crimes tend to be a lot harder to hide than bodies, and the witnesses (in the form of records) harder to bribe.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by vertis »

gadders wrote: post #102
s_dev wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I consider myself on the left and have spent a bit of time in the UK (Usually vote Labour/Green in Australia). Labour does seem fairly inept in the UK, not certain I could vote for them if given the right.

Certainly Corbyn running around suggesting not arming Ukraine did nothing for my opinion on that front[0].

I agree though, that the BBC and the ABC in Australia both lean left as a rule, though still do their job of holding both to account.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corb...

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