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I remember stories of people beaten up for not standing for the anthem in the cinema, one of them was disabled wheelchair user. So I guess it is like that for a while especially after the Hindutvas got into power.
Oh yeah, freedom of speech flourished under Congress rule /s Who was the only prime minister to invoke emergency?
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“every other liberal democracy” In every liberal democracy. India is not one of those. They have elections, but those are necessary, not sufficient conditions for a meaningful state of democracy to exist.
Sure, it's been mired in the "flawed democracy" category for a long time. I'm explicitly not commenting on the actual legal justification of this action because I don't know anything about how their law is written. I think the point of this article is very much to grade India on an absolute international scale of behavior. They fancy themselves as the "world's largest democracy" and things like this put a huge asteri…
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Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech? Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
I admit I'm not super familiar with India's freedom of speech, is this a backslide or has it always been like this?
Freedom & freedom of speech aren't equivalent ideas, and most of us Indians do not correctly identify the subtle difference. Hence speech and opinions come under vicious attack instead of productive participation. India sees journalism taking camps (since the era of Mrs. Indira Gandhi' premiership). There are national newspapers & media channels who very overtly align with the political parties. Speaking your mind ou…
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Didn't expect to see whataboutism and Islamophobia on this site but I guess I should have low expectations from those supporting Modi and his fascist regime.
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The current PM called muslim women 'letter boxes'. You've clearly never been to the UK. I'm sure if you had a basic familiarity, you'd rest comfortably in the knowledge that the state there is just as disgustingly bigoted as you are.
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> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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How is that relevant to the topic at hand? Please don't resort to whataboutery and lower the standard of discussion.
When the west starts point fingers at India for - free speech, human rights, co2 emissions or for that matter oil imports from Russia.
There is still a colonial mindset at the institutional level where they believe they can just pass arbitrary unfounded judgments and the world has no choice but to accept it.
But clearly the data exposes their duplicity.
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UK is half way to Sharia?! It's not true, but even it is, why has that got to do with the criticism? There are continuous calls in India for genocide of Muslims, publicly. Past two weeks, religious processions have been undertaken by Hindu extremist orgs in front of mosques with swords and Guns, mocking Muslims. And PM of the Nation has been silent, with no calls whatsoever for peace. It's not 'funny' to criticize PM…
If you have not noticed there was rioting in Sweden, attacks on Easter parade in Spain, and multiple counts of riots and attacks on Hindu processions in India. Perhaps it is a correlation between hunger and anger, or perhaps the more regular congregation is convenient opportunity for riots.
I admit I'm not super familiar with India's freedom of speech, is this a backslide or has it always been like this?
India never had freedom of speech. Opposition newspapers are often harassed and shut down. They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings. This is not an exaggerated paraphrase, that’s what the law says. A scientist was convicted under this law a few years ago for demonstrating that a “weeping” statue of the Virgin Mary was not actually weeping blood. The truth was offensive, so the law applied. EDIT: I r…