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

Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by DarthNebo on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:32AM (#34787968)

Lol, could have just brushed this aside with a comment instead of outright censoring a globally available media. Like what do they expect, no Indian should ever watch it in India or something but it is fine if outside of India?

This is how freedom of speech dies, bit by bit......

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by amriksohata on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:07AM (#34788222)

Because it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence.

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by headsoup on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:16AM (#34788281)

"Communal disharmony." A lovely term to justify a good old dose of authoritarianism or censorship, for 'the greater good' (or 'communal harmony' in this case).

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by eunos on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:36AM (#34788450)

It is. Communal disharmony could result in thousands of death and development rolled back massively. See what Lee Kuan Yew said about Sri Lanka.

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by headsoup on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:38AM (#34788460)

Better instead to censor and crush dissent then?

If communal harmony is that fragile, it is not communal harmony.

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by qikInNdOutReply on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:13AM (#34788264)

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2020/03/falqs-spreading-rumors-and...

Similar too? A law so squishy, it can target anyone and all things.

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Re:BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi do... by zakember on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:20PM (#34808217)

So you agree that tax officials are being used to harass them for the documentary?

> it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence. I'll wait for these tax officials to raid OpIndia and SwarajyaMag's offices soon as well then.

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