India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
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India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
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Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#2First Hong Kong, then Tehran, then Kazmir...
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#3First Hong Kong, then Tehran, then Kazmir...
When was internet shut down in Hong Kong? I missed that.
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#4When does it stop being called a "democracy"?
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#5When does it stop being called a "democracy"?
It is a totalitarian democracy.
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#6When does it stop being called a "democracy"?
Technically still a democracy but the secular part is taking a serious beating.
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#7Kashmiris call the train the Internet Express. It shuttles people out of the Kashmir Valley — where India has shut down access to the Internet for more than four months — to the nearest town where they can get online.
On a recent foggy morning, it was full of people hoping to renew driver’s licenses, apply for passports, fill out admissions forms and check email. They included 16-year-old Khushboo Yaqoob, who was rushing to register for a medical school exam. “If I had any other option, I wouldn’t be here,” she said.
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#8First Hong Kong, then Tehran, then Kazmir...
Russia had one too
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#9When does it stop being called a "democracy"?
Hopefully never. Nazi Germany was a democracy. They cancelled the elections during the war - but then, so did the British.
I think it's good to be aware of how sick a democracy can get. Anti-Semitism was very popular in Germany. Islamophobia is very popular in India. You can't just blame it on a few evil strongmen. Sometimes, it's the culture that's at fault.
Re: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
#10When does it stop being called a "democracy"?
Hopefully never. Nazi Germany was a democracy. They cancelled the elections during the war - but then, so did the British. I think it's good to be aware of how sick a democracy can get. Anti-Semitism was very popular in Germany. Islamophobia is very popular in India. You can't just blame it on a few evil strongmen. Sometimes, it's the culture that's at fault.
It was a democracy, but it was not what is known in political philosophy as a liberal democracy. A liberal democracy is one that respects human rights. So India under the rule of the BJP is transforming from a liberal democracy to an illiberal democracy.
This is not surprising, since liberal democracy is a modern western concept, but the BJP holds that traditional Hindu culture is best.