BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

Post by naravara » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

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I would hesitate to characterize everything happening as fascist since that's a loaded term and I think it brings in a lot of baggage when transposed cross-culturally that confuses more than it clears up. I think there has been a rise in extremism and political violence that is largely, but not exclusively, driven by the hard right. And I think Modi has a particularly callous, realpolitik approach to governance that…

Just wanted to chime in and say that this was a good read. Reminded me of reading editorials when I was younger. I agree with most of these points, and especially appreciate the fact that you present a nuanced view. Too often, western views are translated directly to other places and result can be inaccurate assessments.

Post by diedyesterday » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 9:59 PM UTC

Post by oblio » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:03 PM UTC

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> The answer is twofold: China isn't a dictatorship, and you can't reason about all countries using this dictatorship-vs-democracy dichotomy. Can I complain about the man in charge? If I go to social media and I post that I hate the bear, what happens? :-) For comparison purposes, on a daily basis, Klaus Iohannis (the Romanian president) can fill his fridge with meat, as we say in Romanian (I'll let you figure out fr…

The ability to criticize the president is not what's important here, and in fact a focus on that as being some sort of golden metric is also another hurdle in properly understanding China. This is part of the typical "dictatorship-vs-democracy" dichotomy thought that I'm criticizing for not being a good fit for China. Concretely: yes in China there is censorship, and yes you can't just criticize the president. Howeve…

Post by MichaelZuo » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

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And if the perpetrator cannot be found? Who pays out for the damages ultimately?

In Germany the guilt has to be proven by the prosecution and you need to be sentenced by the court. If this can't be done, no one is hold accountable. If something stolen is found in an office, and the company has nothing to do with it, the company is not held responsible for the theft.

Post by brokenmachine » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

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I've not torrented in at least a decade, and I don't remember seeing magnet links inline in text like that. Certainly don't miss those hours of waiting for an ISO to download only to find it's all corrupt, or a record label plant, or a handheld recording of a cinema screen...

> Certainly don't miss those hours of waiting I think you mean 2 decades. I haven't waited an hour for anything to download since I used to grab bootleg concerts that were very poorly seeded in the early/mid aughts.