Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

restofworld.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

181–190 of 208 posts

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#181

Post by WillSlim95 »

braindead_in wrote: post #174
WillSlim95 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been studying reports on terrorism in India informally last 5 years and this comment is woefully inaccurate. Every sentence in this is inaccurate.

How?

Well I will start with the claim that "my every sentence is incorrect" was not completely true. There is some credence to the drug trade one.But the other claims are definitely spurious.Let me start with the most obvious one, Communists in urban areas are generally Marxist-Lenninst followers. They spend their time reading a lot of Das Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Mao's writings are not respected in these circles (Castro and Stalin are respected somehow).

Naxals are the followers of Mao, no doubt. But urban communits in general don't think highly of Mao at all. They only think of protesting and disobedience . They may have some overlapping causes.

Calling all communists as naxals is lazy and sloppy thinking.

Naxalites are a mix of goons and insurgents who loosely care about communist beliefs. They used to be most prevalent in lawless and hinterland areas,nowadays their influence is a lot less.

Source :- Briefly dated a communist.

Don't care about communism. But believe that if it has to be opposed,understand it.

But the fact is the term urban naxals is a meaningless pjeroative used against those who hold opinions different from the current Indian government.

It is even used against those who don't believe in communism at all.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#182

Post by maedla »

dextralt wrote: post #90
maedla wrote: post #75

How did we get to the point where the government not being able to punish you for what you say is conflated with posting to a privately owned website? How? It's embarrassing

So if all those people who hold problematic opinions would go and make their own privately owned website, everyone would be happy?

We do base our society on individualism...

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#183

Post by amriksohata »

This is purely a response, Twitter and other platforms have riled up countries like Australia too and India. Either Twitter-like platforms fragment across countries or they have to change and obey orders. They can choose not to, but then they will lose millions if not a billion people. Economics will always play a part.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#184

Post by amriksohata »

as300 wrote: post #37

I get the impression reading articles like this that the farm bills would certainly negatively impact farmer. See this quote from the article: >The country’s capital city has seen over four months of protest after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government enacted agricultural laws that would adversely affect farmers across India. However, from speaking to people and watching interviews where people discuss *the actua…

https://www.facebook.com/FISIUK75/videos/1136660920139534/

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#185

Post by amriksohata »

sgpl wrote: post #4

I grew up in India - nationalism is definitely a growing concern for the country IMO, more so than can be expressed online by articles such as this. And nationalism definitely has a huge overlap with hinduism in the country. Creating siloed media platforms that lets such ideas fester and grow is probably the worst thing that can happen. The thing is that even gently challenging these ideas (with some folks I know bac…

https://www.facebook.com/FISIUK75/videos/1136660920139534/

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#186

Post by higerordermap »

braindead_in wrote: post #178
higerordermap wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a Hindu and definitely against the expansionist philosophies of these religions. But isn't the mainstream nationalist narrative too pushing the same Hindutva-Hindi homogeneous propaganda? And diversity is not only about religion either.

Hindutva, as laid out by Savarkar, embraced the diversity and was against any kind of homogenisation. BJP support Hindu as a second language or link language; it does not want to replace any language. Hindu Nationalism in principle wants to preserve the cultural identity of the Hindus which itself is very diverse and therefore supports diversity.

Savarkar had faults, but his "Hindu Atheist" ideology was compelling and pretty progressive IMO. But today's RSS/BJP is not that, with all that Mandir politics, moreover they are as much or more corrupt than INC and just using nationalism as a bait to attract uninformed voters. And because of the fierce nationalist narrative (which often turns anti-progress and anti-science), they have got many blind followers who will defend their horrible-est of policies.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#187

Post by boruto »

rsj_hn wrote: post #146
rdedev wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minimum Support Price. The government buys certain crops at a minimum rate from the farmers to protect them from sudden market fluctuations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_support_price_(India...

Interesting. Is there a maximum price as well to support those who buy food? Usually when you are talking about agriculture, the big risk is in a sudden supply collapse leading to price spikes, not a sudden supply explosion leading to price drops.

There are laws against hording. Currently government is the biggest seller of grain charging 3 cents per a kilo.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#188

Post by activatedgeek »

mathemagical wrote: post #156
as300 wrote: post #37

I get the impression reading articles like this that the farm bills would certainly negatively impact farmer. See this quote from the article: >The country’s capital city has seen over four months of protest after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government enacted agricultural laws that would adversely affect farmers across India. However, from speaking to people and watching interviews where people discuss *the actua…

Here is an article that goes into a lot of historical context and explains what is happening. It's a bit long but does a good job of explaining all the nuances, so it's worth reading to the end. https://www.fairobserver.com/region/central_south_asia/atul-...

This article sort of reasserts the same sentiment that the parent comment alluded to. Quoting a couple -

> Some farmers worry whether the reforms might lead to the end of wholesale markets and guaranteed prices.

> Farmers might go from the local monopsonies of the APMCs to the national oligopoly of Amazon-like behemoths.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

#189

Post by boruto »

MattGaiser wrote: post #111
diebeforei485 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worth noting: Under Indian law, truth is not necessarily a defense to defamation. But perhaps having being black-and-white democratically enacted rules (such as they are) is better than having opaque rules set by unelected San Francisco employees.

> Worth noting: Under Indian law, truth is not necessarily a defense to defamation. So what is defamation defined as then? Offense?

I think he is being sarcastic about a recent judgement.
Post reply on HN