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Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Re: Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Post by fleddr »

f6v wrote: post #150
fleddr wrote: post #127

Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are? I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China. In this position,…

Alternative take: there will be no repercussions because of what you described. For one thing the EU is buying Indian diesel, isn’t that right? Probably among many other things.

I agree that there will be no immediate serious repercussions, but it's still a case of tickling a shark or shooting in your own foot.

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Post by sjnonweb »

luuurker wrote: post #149
sjnonweb wrote: post #92

Propaganda against India is pretty strong these days

It seems that "these days" every criticism is propaganda. It doesn't matter if the points are valid or not or if they're describing something that it's happening. "Propaganda!" It's very sad to see people everywhere turning off their brains just because their government was criticised.

When you choose to show only one side of the story then it fails to be categorised as criticism, its called propaganda.

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Post by AzzieElbab »

coolspot wrote: post #64
formerly_proven wrote: post #3

The raiding will improve until m̶o̶r̶a̶l̶e̶ reporting improves.

Worked in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTV_(Russia)#Change_of_managem...

I know nothing about India’s politics but Russia’s legal system is explicitly structured in the way that makes you break laws every step of the way so that law enforcement can be applied selectively

Re: Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

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Post by sjnonweb »

lesuorac wrote: post #141
sjnonweb wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to read a little more history then! India's history goes much further than that. Read up on The Maurya Empire

Surely the British arrived in India well after 0 AD. Not sure how an empire that disolved long before then would matter to what the British saw when they first reached India.

I'm just citing one example from the many. India as an entity has been dissolved and established multiples times in the history. British came at the weak period of India, essentially during a long civil war that was going on across the whole subcontinent.

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Post by JacobThreeThree »

fleddr wrote: post #127

Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are? I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China. In this position,…

Russia invaded another country and yet 91% of firms operating in that country continue to do so, despite the supposedly crippling sanctions.

https://www.politico.eu/article/majority-of-western-companie...

Why would a comparatively insignificant transgression like this raid scare off investors?

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Post by toast0 »

adventured wrote: post #136
imbiased wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Iranian government was already known to be terrible to its people. The Saudis ordering an assassination _ abroad , using their embassy, in such a violent way on a dissident_ made a lot of people aware of the problem that was the new Saudi regime which had some Western alignment. It’s not that this death was more important, it’s just revealed a big change in Saudi Arabia

Which ignores the vast gap between coverage in the one murder vs the thousands of murders. The bias was on open display, and it's a perceived political alignment issue (Saudi Arabia is quite friendly with US conservatives traditionally and far more hostile to US liberals; ~95%+ of journalists in the US vote left and they're rarely shy with their bias in the Trump era; Saudi was relatively friendly toward Trump and it…

The news media is looking for new news, not old news. An ally killing someone in their embassy is new news; a regime of disrepute killing protestors is the same old story.

It's the same reason why election fraud in the US or Europe gets coverage when it's just a couple votes, but Russia's elections don't get much coverage. Everyone knows Russia's elections are a joke, but someone getting arrested for voting their deceased relative's ballot is unexpected.

It's not a measure of importance, it's a measure of newness.

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Post by mtalantikite »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #122
simonh wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, they knew that the minorities would be bullied by Hindus.

Sorry but that's still an extremely simplistic take, if not to say ignorant. The poor bullied minorities ™ went on to genocide Bangladeshis in East Pakistan for wanting independence and raped hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women, only a few years after Pakistan itself had seceded. I know many Westerners love a good minority story but Islamists aren't that.

The definition of minority shifts depending on who the dominant power is.

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Post by sjnonweb »

01acheru wrote: post #154
sjnonweb wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like what?

Like all those outraged Indian nationalists that pop up in flocks anywhere and every time there is a news outlet that goes against Indian nationalist propaganda and big boss Modi?

Well its bound to happens when the said news outlet forgets to show the other side of the story, selectively missing on the nuance. I'm no fan of Modi, No fan of half truths either.

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Post by whatshisface »

LordAtlas wrote: post #35
ridiculous_leke wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what's holding the release in the US?

It was posted on YouTube but our authoritarian thin-skinned Prime Minister issued orders to Google to take it down.

Why does the prime minister of a country I don't live in get to take videos down from servers hosted in the country I do?
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