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Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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Post by rootkea »

arcticfox wrote: post #122
jeswin wrote: post #69

Here's what happened: - Nupur Sharma, spokesperson of the governing party (BJP) mocks Prophet Mohammed on National TV saying that he had sex with a 9 year old. She then justifies it saying she was quoting the Hadith (Islamic religious texts). - ZooBear on Twitter brings attention to the issue, via his channel AltNews - India gets international condemnation, Gulf countries are pissed - India apologizes to various Gulf…

Holy cow. Thanks for the context. > - Two people get murdered (one beheaded and the video streamed) for supporting Nupur Sharma on Social Media JFC, humans suck. Also interesting after looking into it is that ZooBear has tweet after tweet mocking Hinduism, yet takes extreme offense at someone mocking Islam and seems to consider it hate speech.

> ZooBear has tweet after tweet mocking Hinduism

Absolutely false. Can you share one?

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Post by dang »

methusala8 wrote: post #63
0xmohit wrote: post #32

In UP, India, a Muslim restaurant owner was arrested because the non-veg food he wrapped with old newspapers had photos of Hindu gods and goddesses. https://thewire.in/rights/up-man-arrested-for-wrapping-chick...

I can share ten stories where the offenders are Muslims and the victims are Hindus. Wire won't be covering those stories. This newspaper is as prejudiced against Hindus as it gets.

Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar hell. That is the last thing we need here.

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Post by dang »

pessimizer wrote: post #110
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Wire doesn’t need to cover them because mainstream media channels are already blasting them on primetime everyday. Amazing that in a country where there’s a Hindu in practically every single position of authority, Hindus still harbor such a deep seated victimization complex.

Not that amazing. In the US, see Christians, white people, and men.

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Post by dang »

harpic wrote: post #58
ghoomketu wrote: post #4

While I have no sympathy for razorpay but I'd just like to point out that laws in India are much more heavy handed than a country like US. People are thrown in jail for social media posts and sometimes just for liking a social media post(1) Twitter has been having a very hard time operating in India too(2) and routinely censoring stuff so while IANAL just remember that things are very different in different parts of…

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Post by dang »

ahamedirshad123 wrote: post #66
harpic wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Doctored video? What are you smoking? He posted the original video. And the channel has deleted the video from their YouTube channel. For Non Indians here, TimesNow is the channel and that news reporter is Laura Ingram of India.

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Post by dang »

thway_nohitler wrote: post #27

This is very sad to see, and makes me really worry about the people who got their names handed to the police. The current jingoistic BJP regime is doing all sorts of authoratarian things in India, like demolishing housing for merely taking part in protests [0]. They have also used facial recognition techniques to identify mere protesters and punish them severely [1]. They put a doctor in jail for saving lives of kids…

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Post by bipulranjan »

tr1ll10nb1ll wrote: post #207
pkphilip wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are linking to OpIndia - a virulent, propagandist right-wing publication?

The sad part is people with enough social awareness still linking these publications (ones that push a certain political agenda, in this case- far-right) probably do not perceive this as the sole truth rather as a means to defend the injustice they too deem right being carried out. In other words, any justification possible for their views.

Yes, OpIndia pushes far-right agenda that doesn't change the fact stated in the article I linked that Md. Zubair has deleted his facebook page after people started reporting his post.

BTW, what agenda Alt News promote? Regarding injustice, if you are alive atleast you can hope for justice.

What justification you are going to provide for beheading of Hindus?

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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Post by snambi »

kalimanzaro wrote: post #48
RicoElectrico wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

India is weird. It's not really called authoritarian (rankings don't classify it as such), but there are many similar stories of government dysfunction and overreach. Maybe someone else has a word for them?

An autocracy of the majority, for the majority, by the majority.

There is a name for it, democracy.

Re: Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

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Post by rootkea »

throwaway_1928 wrote: post #108
jeswin wrote: post #69

Here's what happened: - Nupur Sharma, spokesperson of the governing party (BJP) mocks Prophet Mohammed on National TV saying that he had sex with a 9 year old. She then justifies it saying she was quoting the Hadith (Islamic religious texts). - ZooBear on Twitter brings attention to the issue, via his channel AltNews - India gets international condemnation, Gulf countries are pissed - India apologizes to various Gulf…

Not entirely true. - TV debates in India are charged and partisan. - Nupur Sharma was debating a man named Tasneem Rehmani. - Tasleem Rehmani said something denigrating towards a Hindu God (which is normal and typically goes unpunished and even unnoticed in India). - Nupur Sharma countered him by saying "Do not mock my religion. Do you want me to start talking about flying horses or the fact that your Prophet married…

> Tasleem Rehmani said something denigrating towards a Hindu God

I watched that entire debate and he didn't say anything degrading towards Hindu Gods.

Here's the context- Hindu RW claimed a fountain in Gyanvapi mosque (situated in Kashi) as Shivalinga (God Shiva's phallus)[0] which is a part of larger campaign of claiming Muslims mosques as Hindu temples by RSS/BJP. Started with demolition of Babri mosque (situated in Ayodhya) in 1992.[1] The war-cry of the time was "Ayodhya to zaki hai. Kashi Mathura baki hai" (Ayodhya is just a trailer. Kashi and Mathura are remaining)

Many Indians (majorly we secular Hindus) made fun of communal Hindus for claiming anything shaped like a phallus to be a "Shivalinga". I myself shared how in 1990s Hindus in San Fransisco started worshiping traffic barricade as "Shivalinga".[2]

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hindu-group-recognise...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_the_Babri_Masjid

[2] https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/san-francisco-people-w...

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