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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 anaganisk »

nocababges wrote: post #197
anaganisk wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supreme court or a local mobile court, all function based on evidence. And evidence can be tampered. And dont tell me in India people dont say "If he has money/power he will be free". Courts dont investigate. They listen to what prosecution has to provide, if prosecustion has new evidence decades later, the acquital can be oveturned. Doesnt mean someone is innocent forever. Its not a certificate of innocence.

So you will trust BBC propaganda more than Supreme Court. right on.

You do realise that you are literally turning gears in your head to come up with some witty line but end up justifying my comment yourself without even trying to understand what I said. If the BBC documentary can provide new evidence or some common person comes up with new evidence, they can literally repoen the case, and who knows may be the accusations may be found with a guilty verdict. There are several cases that have been re-opened, and verdicts reversed decades later. Supreme court giving a clean chit doesn't mean a permanent certificate of innocence. It just means evidence was not strong by prosecution during the trial.

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Post by teddyh »

teddyh wrote: post #152
sorokod wrote: post #2

The Modi Question on Peertube: https://peertube.tv/search?search=The%20Modi%20Question%20&s...

Also: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f80de3863cbfaa6465fdec1b80777b7aa144c58d magnet:?xt=urn:btih:41fb7b407b2c00393da307838729538be9ce68e0 magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c378a82cf67a1107523ca6c647077403a1ef74d

(Allegedly, that is.)

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Post by scns »

benbristow wrote: post #43

So the Indian government have got all the time in the world to raid offices over tax but don't do anything over scam call centres scamming innocent victims all over the world.

They do bust scammers if provided with evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmd_gIFTLTo

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Post by imbiased »

toast0 wrote: post #166
adventured wrote: post #136

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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 dec…

exactly, it's what I wanted to point out but you did it better

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Post by imbiased »

whatshisface wrote: post #193
imbiased wrote: post #173

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So in your logic anyone can say whatever they like and there is no control at all, so lies can spread by malicious actors. I disagree and value this minimal control when exercised properly with checks, which is the case in europe

If people cannot be trusted to distinguish between information and misinformation, and you are a person, how can you then say that you have determined that the BBC documentary Modi has banned is not misinformation? Either people have to be shepherded through the library or they don't.

I didn't determine, but the BBC has a well deserved reputation as do its journalists. Also if Modi had nothing to hide, why these persecutions as opposed to focusing on disputing alleged facts with evidence

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Post by morekozhambu »

oblio wrote: post #158
meepmorp wrote: post #142

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It's not like the British haven't done it before, though.

There was no united Indian state though, as the Mughals were falling and the Marathas were just a confederacy. Plus neither of them had nukes.

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Post by morekozhambu »

imbiased wrote: post #215
whatshisface wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If people cannot be trusted to distinguish between information and misinformation, and you are a person, how can you then say that you have determined that the BBC documentary Modi has banned is not misinformation? Either people have to be shepherded through the library or they don't.

I didn't determine, but the BBC has a well deserved reputation as do its journalists. Also if Modi had nothing to hide, why these persecutions as opposed to focusing on disputing alleged facts with evidence

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Post by amriksohata »

jen20 wrote: post #20
amriksohata wrote: post #13

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The BBC are banned in China, Russia and have had many temporary bans in the past in India (70s), Myanmar, Rwanda, Zimbabwe etc. This is nothing new, the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL

If they’re the best examples you have, all that does is further convince me that the BBC World Service is in fact the premiere reporting outfit in the world. None of those are governments that right-thinking people have any truck with, and all have a marked history of suppressing inconvenient truth. In other words, the BBC World Service usually _is_ right.

the start of orwellian thinking, a media house which is not questionable and only it is considered right over many other countries

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Post by amriksohata »

zakember wrote: post #27
amriksohata wrote: post #13

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The BBC are banned in China, Russia and have had many temporary bans in the past in India (70s), Myanmar, Rwanda, Zimbabwe etc. This is nothing new, the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL

> the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL Actually that's what BJP thinks. Whenever anyone says anything against them, they are termed as a 'Conspiracy against the nation' or 'anti-national'. It is BJP who thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong, not the other way round :)

he said she said, but the proof is in the data, they won the last 2 elections with large majorities, so what india thinks is not what the bbc thinks ;)
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