Piss off the government and they'll mess with you.
Look how they did Trump and his cronies.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russian press that was banned was because they were conducting disinformation, “an operational tool in its assault on Ukraine” https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...
It is repression of journalism/press and saying "but they're bad/wrong" is just a label applied by the powerful to their enemies
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
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you give me the ability to cripple the internet for 50% of the population, I will easily be able to rig an election for you. Hell, in the US, 10% should probably be sufficient.
Interesting thought. So going further, what specifically would you do?
Blackhole any sites people of the opposing political use for political organization, donations, news, propaganda.
As a first pass, you don't even need to block general-purpose platforms like reddit and Twitter and Facebook, you just need to kill the centralized sources of political information.
The point of this exercise isn't a full on repression of all dissent, it's just shifting the political window to topics and mouthpieces that are friendly to you. Most people have mainstream opinions, and if you tilt the mainstream landscape towards you, by driving your opponents into high-friction underground echo chambers, a first past the post system lets you turn a close election into a landslide.
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#175Isn'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,…
> You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby? You have it backwards. This is the stuff that manufacturers, and particularly capitalist American manufacturers go absolutely nuts for. Authoritarian governments are their wet dream. If you have an authori…
Well, if we're going to be pointing fingers, let's not forget ourselves here: consumers. We gladly look away when consuming these cheap products.
The attraction is that it's cheap, nothing else matters. If it were cheap whilst the country was democratic, we'd still take it. So authoritarian is not the requirement, being low cost is. That said, yes it's a fair point that cheap correlates with an authoritarian regime with lax regulation. But it's not the only reason for being low cost, it can also be a result of a surplus of labor and the lack of an internal market.
Regardless, the recent insight is that moving all manufacturing into a superpower with nukes that changes alliances at a whim might have been a mistake. Hence another sizable country like India behaving unreliably isn't exactly looking attractive as the next destination.
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#176Isn'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,…
Let's be real, the beneficiaries of re-shoring manufacturing were always going to be the countries that used to do it before China became the cheaper option. Namely: Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Japan.
No idea why you're downvoted because it's a good remark.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is interesting that it took Western media to blow the whistle. You could write books about everything that is wrong with my country (many people do) but independent journalism is sacrosanct.
Blow the whistle on what? Nothing in that documentary is new, most Indians know it. It has been reported and widely covered by Indian press before. It is just new to you (or the west).
You are forgetting one thing - most Indians knew it and believed it back in 2001 but now there's a whole generation who has been brainwashed to believe that the whole western world's media is against India because they don't want to see India be a power. They genuinely believe in this. These are the people who were probably 5 year olds then and are now in their late 20s or early 30s.
Obviously they don't think why they want to be a "superpower" when we still don't have clean water and our air is getting worse (literally unliveable by global standards)
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#178Isn'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,…
Know your facts before you start name-calling India and start showing your biases. It's the world's largest and most vibrant democracy with a very comprehensive constitution. On the other hand, BBC has a long history of crappy reporting and tax evasion, not just in India but also in their home country.
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#179Attacking the press is never a good look in my book. Without even having seen the documentary, this convinces me that Modi is guilty of anything it accuses him of.
It doesn't matter what you think. Modi is hugely popular in India and won with a very strong mandate. Countering attempts of brainwashing by the former colonialists only makes Modi more of a hero to the locals. There is a reason Modi is taking up this fight, he could have choosen to ignore the bait. But it actually helps drive support for him in India. And it really shows in the latest approval ratings:
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modi-tops-list-of-most-po...
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#180Isn'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,…
Know your facts before you start name-calling India and start showing your biases. It's the world's largest and most vibrant democracy with a very comprehensive constitution. On the other hand, BBC has a long history of crappy reporting and tax evasion, not just in India but also in their home country.
https://peertube.tv/search?search=The%20Modi%20Question%20&s...
Here is the documentary, why not watch it and see what you think about their reporting?