Is it just me, or are authoritarian regimes on the rise world-wide?
I think they were always here, the difference is now we have a 24hr news spotlight on them.
BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
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How does one get malware from playing a .mkv or .mp4 video file?
A sophisticated attacker could make use of bugs in the player to hack the system. This sort of trick is often used against high value targets where the effort needed makes it worth it.
Why does the video player have the capability to do anything other than read video files the user specifies through the system file chooser dialog and play them on the screen?
Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
#223There is a sampling bias at play right here in HN with the Modi-bashing comments. Indians, and India, is doing great overall. Modi's leadership has played a big role in this. Indians are (generally) emotionally people, and by no means is it an authoritarian state. In fact, we need wise leaders with vision to manage this population.
> by no means is it an authoritarian state The linked article would indicate otherwise? I think one's standards of democracy have to be fairly low, to not see that Indian state is at least proto-authoritarian. From what I can see, India is doing pretty badly in most indicators, be it democracy indices, HDI, employment (The usual response to this from Right wing is that these are "western indicators", and the governme…
I saw the video the day it came out. Its an OK video, but I question the timing in wake of the upcoming elections and Modi leading the G20.
Typically I don't call out "ejection e manipulation" or "external interference", but I'm increasingly starting to suspect the intentions of the BBC (and other media)
The metrics you mention are not poor, but our data is poor. Furthermore, numerous research shows HDI and GDP are flawed (but legacy) metrics - this is exasperated by the poor quality data available in a chaotic country like India
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#224I most likely wouldn't have bothered with the documentary. But oh boy do I wanna see it now - what is it that Modi doesn't want me to see about him? Definite watch for me!
The Streisand effect :) I agree - there is nothing in the documentary about Modi and the BJP that has not been hashed out dozens of times before. Its all the more surprise that it is getting suppressed, which will lead to people watching it even more than if it was ignored. The BJP is media savvy, but using the Indian bureaucracy and especially the Tax department to score points is clumsy.
> The BJP is media savvy, but using the Indian bureaucracy and especially the Tax department to score points is clumsy.
Clumsy? This is Amit Shah's standard playbook. Remember how many prominent Congress leaders were arrested for tax evasion.
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#225Honestly, a lot of the documentary is a mixture of interviews and CCTV camera footage with a fairly even handed narrative on the top – it, by itself, isn't that shocking and certainly isn't presented in a particularly sensationalist way. I'm amazed by the reaction it has generated. Yes, there's some post-colonial history there and it doesn't look great that it's the BBC that has made it, as opposed to, say, a US or c…
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Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.
They'll obviously have better luck with them than with BBC iPlayer, for which they would need the knowledge and ability to set up a British VPN.
And lie about holding a valid UK TV license.
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#227Is it just me, or are authoritarian regimes on the rise world-wide?
The old mantra "Ouside of Liberalism, there will be no prosperity" showing its crack. Western Liberal world order is not invincible anymore.
All the prosperity in the non-liberal World is just a gift from the Western Liberal world. There would be not much prosperity in India or China w/o Western companies outsourcing operations over there. Once a middle class is built things start rolling by themselves but til then let's not kid ourselves that the prosperity in these iliberal countries was home-built.
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Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.
They'll obviously have better luck with them than with BBC iPlayer, for which they would need the knowledge and ability to set up a British VPN.
I thought you were right at first, but with commercial VPNs constantly be advertised as a way to get around content restrictions, I wouldn't be surprised if more people understood a VPN than a torrent these days. Assuming they're willing to pay that is.
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> People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad You probably want to define what "East" is in this context. If East is Russia + China, it's trivially easy to prove that the West is better for its own citizens. 1. Economic levels in the West. 2. Respect for citizens' lives in the West. I'm from a country that used to be in the Eastern Bloc, and let me tell you, nobody respects its citizens' l…
> People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent that's why they don't need to use violence as openly as not-so-rich countries. When their monopoly is threatened, they act equally ruthlessly.
> The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent
Can you elaborate on this? Resources I agree with - but that boils down to controlling dissent by just removing a source of it which is not the same as controlling dissent by cracking down
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#230For people who don't know what this is about, it's about the 2002 riots who some say border on genocide and Modi withhelding the police to stop the riots. "It is estimated that at least 250 girls and women were gang raped and then burned to death. Children were force fed petrol and then set on fire, pregnant women were gutted and then had their unborn child's body shown to them. In the Naroda Patiya mass grave of nin…
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