• moistclump@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The India-related stuff going on in BC and Canada sounds important and big. If I’m being honest though I have a hard time following it. There’s a lot of history and nuance I think I’m missing from my knowledge base.

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      Sikhs want Punjab to be its own country, separate from India. India post Congress is ruled by Hindu nationalists who want to rewrite history books and erase anything positive that happened in precolonial India (which wasn’t really a country in the modern sense, but a changing set of integrated states) under non Hindu rule. The BJP are fascist shit stains and literally ordering hits on Sikh activists abroad for trying to promote Sikh separatism. There’s really not much more nuance than that. Fuck Modi.

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      The documentary actually acts as a good starting point for what happened and what led up to it

      The focus is on this particular event, but it gives enough background to understand it and also know what to read up on afterwards

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      8 months ago

      India came to be as a protest by the occupied against the british occupation. Everyone agreed that the british had to go. Now that it isn’t a threat, parts of it want their old identity back. As they were mostly different kingdoms before british and french controlled the sub continent.

      Hindus have been taking credit for all the stuff in the region as the sole driving force, by feeding propaganda, rewriting history, by swallowing other smaller culture/religions and calling them reincarnation of their hindu gods. It just adds to the fire.

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      Nah, this is what happens when we put corporations in charge of censorship.

      I definitely support “good censorship” as you put it. I want child porn to be censored, for example. If it wasn’t illegal, there’d probably be big money to be made there, and there’d be some people and corporations that’d be more than happy to fill that market niche.

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              Lol why would the government prevent censorship?

              The way to curb shitty speech is not with more speech. Just like the way to curb child porn is not more porn, child or otherwise.

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                  I think you might be misinterpreting “free speech”. Twitter can delete all of your tweets that say “Musk sucks”, and that is absolutely none of the government’s business. It’s not their job to try to convince Twitter otherwise. That’s not what free speech is about.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      8 months ago

      These big corporations always censor themselves so they can do business in countries with oppressive regimes. I don’t know how much difference it makes whether “we” tolerate censorship or not. They’ll do it anyway until there’s some disincentive for them to do it.

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    8 months ago

    It’s only blocked in India, while not great we can still access it and the information is still out there for anyone with a VPN.