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Perhaps I am giving the BBC too much credit but I think this was a brilliant move on their part. Forbidding something will make it more popular and perhaps tha
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Perhaps I am giving the BBC too much credit but I think this was a brilliant move on their part. Forbidding something will make it more popular and perhaps that was the goal. Now the video will be shared {n} times more than it previously would have.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoUh... I guess. That just seems like a super charitable 4D chess interpretation of capitulating to despotic censorship.
- sandworm101 4y agoMaybe for a few weeks. But years from now it will be far harder to find because of this removal. the Streisand is aptly named. Celebrities exist in the moment. Politicians like Modi are looking at protecting their reputations five ten or twenty years down the road.
- alex_smart 4y agoYou are perhaps giving the documentary too much more credit than it deserves. There are no new revelations in the documentary as far as I know. The infamous Babu Bajrangi Tehelka sting came out all the way back in 2007. The Indian public knew all about the allegations against Modi in 2014 when he was first elected as PM.
- bjelkeman-again 4y agoIt doesn’t hurt reminding people though. It is not like they have repented.
- vijaybritto 4y agoTrue. Its laughable that people think this is going to change anything. Even the top software professionals I know voted for him because he "protected" hindus. They openly say he showed muslims their place. One guy who claimed he wasn't a modi supporter at first later just casually told, "the muslims started it first so they got back in full"
- alephnerd 4y agoThere is value in letting non-Indians know, which is the whole point of the documentary. Everyone in India knows about Gujarat 2002, Babri Masjid, and the whole discourse and context around this, but not necessarily foreigners. Btw, plenty of BJP voters (like my extended family) detest the anti-Muslim shit they do, but have no other choice because in a Parliamentary system, you are voting for your MP, not your national leader. I seriously hope the BBC brought that point up.
- alex_smart 4y ago>There is value in letting non-Indians know, which is the whole point of the documentary. I don't see it. Most people outside India do not have enough interest in India's politics to want to spend enough time to develop a nuanced understanding. I don't see the value in people in other countries develop, for lack of a better word, a "John Oliver" level of understanding of my country's internal affairs. >because in a Parliamentary system, you are voting for your MP, not your national leader That is almost entirely opposite the case with Modi though. Most BJP voters vote directly for Modi (and BJP's electoral campaigns reflect this) because they like him and have trust in him, even if they don't particularly like/care about the local candidate of BJP. Modi has been quite successful in turning Indian elections quasi-presidential. Forget general elections, BJP goes even into state and even local municipal elections asking for votes in Modi's name.
- crtasm 4y agoThere's nothing stopping someone reuploading it in the future, when it'll be far less likely to incur a DMCA.
- Narretz 4y agoIt would be a brilliant move if you could actually watch the documentary on BBC from anywhere in the world, but it's restricted to UK only.