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> India is a democracy, where it has always been OK to criticize the government - at least up until 2014, 1. 1975-77: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergen

by sinyug 5y ago

> India is a democracy, where it has always been OK to criticize the government - at least up until 2014, 1. 1975-77: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) 2. 2011: https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/when-net-is-gross/cid/468234 https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/when-net-is-gross/cid/... 3. 2008: https://www.theregister.com/2008/05/19/google_india_gandhi/ https://www.theregister.com/2008/05/19/google_india_gandhi/ No Indian politician or government _likes_ criticism. Modi is almost unique in the staggering amount of abuse and vitriol that has been directed towards him over the last twenty years. If it had been any one else, they would probably have lost it by now.

fakedang 5y ago
Modi is also unique in the staggering lengths he goes to maintain a sanitized image of himself and his party online. You forget how much attack Manmohan Singh and Congress came under during the rape crisis, or 2G scam or CWG scam. Did Manmohan Singh lose it like Modi? Did he force Twitter and Facebook to police their posts and groups? If that had happened, I should have been banned on both platforms by now.