Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day
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#222Are we talking about this BBC?
BBC TV licence goons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jljn8YI1_GQ
Perhaps the British police could be used to crack down on the grooming gangs.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. The problem is not being raided for tax evasion. The problem is them and others being investigated/raided after criticising the government. It's the usual "we'll ignore things if you keep things quiet and make your life hard if you don't". No one is above the law, but the application of the law is very selective... Any journalist or org will get the message. 2. You want a 2 hour documentary that covers who did wha…
Its absurd to claim that nothing was done to stop it from happening, if that was the case then thing would have been much worse. It was brought under control as effectively as it is possible when the riots are happening at communal level. Have you not seen riots happen in London few years ago, or the black lives matter, or so many others in the past. To use you own argument, why did they not stop it immediately? Beca…
I didn't claim that nothing was done to stop it from happening. Please re-read my comment.
I was living in London in 2011 when the riots happened. There was no parties/movements inciting anyone to kill/expel/hate a different group. The police killed one guy and that was the outcome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Mark_Duggan . Of course you can't stop this immediately, but you can stop people from spreading hate and stop yourself from associating with said people.
The documentary... honestly, no one cared about it. Maybe many Indians did care, but Indians should know that background. No one made a big deal outside India because usually people don't care that much about happened on the other part of the world (do you?). Anyway, how do you go from this to censor the content?
Most of BBC funding comes from a TV license paid by people with TVs, not from the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Now, I'm not going to say that they're the most independent and serious source in the world, but they went after the Tony Blair government (centre-left) in the 2000s, criticised the following conservative governments, and as you can see, the government doesn't like them that much: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/17/governments-at...
In any case, I really don't like media censorship or governments that go after people who criticise them or selectively apply laws. For me it's wrong.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
You're projecting what you would like it if I said onto what I actually said.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 ;)
Alexander Lukashenko "won" the last election in Belarus with 80% share of the vote...
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that's right, apple moving some iPhone and other production to India is a big deal. But it's not going to be easy because of all the production lines and parts that are made by other companies in China and the built up expertise. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/27/apple-shi...
No country is going to benefit from just one company moving their production there. Focusing on just Apple is blowing things out of proportion. A lot of India's electronics manufacturing at the moment is still limited to recycling (e.g, Sony Trinitron CRTs)
Manufacturing top end finished goods (like the phone) will lead to more local sourcing of components eventually.