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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 so
by thway_nohitler 4y ago
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 by paying for oxygen out of his own pocket, because he publicized those already dead [2].
I am seriously worried about what will happen to the people whose names were in the donors' list.
Will they be arrested, be put on some sort of shitlist and their lives will be made full of problems because they dared to fund a company that merely fact-check the lies spread by the IT cell of the ruling party?
Note that, the tweet is a mere screenshot of a movie from 1983. The director or the producer of the movie aren’t touched. But sharing the screenshot unedited put him in jail [3]. It is also a major factor that he has an Arabic name.
[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-61785275 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-61785275
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-technology-idUSKBN20B0ZQ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protest...
[2]: https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/explained-who-is-dr-kafeel-khan-and-why-is-he-in-jail https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/explained-who-is-dr-ka...
[3]: https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/kissi-se-na-kehna-mohammed-zubair-arrested-for-tweeting-photo-from-1983-hindi-film https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/kissi-se-na-kehna-m...
- hans1729 4y agofyi, I get a `page not found` for [3].
- thway_nohitler 4y agoFixed, thanks.
- throwaway_1928 4y agoReferencing the BBC and the Wire here is the equivalent of quoting the WaPo when discussing Trump.
- ahamedirshad123 4y agoYou want him to refer India Today, Timesnow, republic, euro news, danik bhaskar and Dhinamalar? Or **opIndia?
- throwaway_1928 4y ago
- MrBlueIncognito 4y agoGraham's Hierarchy of Disagreement applies here. You couldn't refute the central point of something you disagreed with, so you resorted to sarcasm and mockery. Perhaps it would've helped if you had a proper counterargument based on facts and reason. Maybe you could have encouraged us to see things the way you do, but the comment you just wrote will only serve to nudge us to disagree more strongly with you.
- throwaway_1928 4y agoBrandolini's Law applies too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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- ImPostingOnHN 4y agopresumably you, throwaway_1928, have a personal problem with both, but are not willing to share it
- dang 4y agoPlease do not take HN threads into political flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We ban such accounts, and creating accounts to do it will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html