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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

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......

assholeconny 4y ago
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amriksohata 4y ago
Because it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
  https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2020/03/falqs-spreading-rumors-and-police-reprimand-under-chinese-law/ https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2020/03/falqs-spreading-rumors-and... Similar too? A law so squishy, it can target anyone and all things.
- headsoup 4y ago
  "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).
  - eunos 4y ago
    It is. Communal disharmony could result in thousands of death and development rolled back massively. See what Lee Kuan Yew said about Sri Lanka.
    - headsoup 4y ago
      Better instead to censor and crush dissent then? If communal harmony is that fragile, it is not communal harmony.
- zakember 4y ago
  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.
  - bongoman37 4y ago
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