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BioDriver t1_j5oerlt wrote

Guess they should just broadcast it more, now

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Baka_Penguin t1_j5ohhjs wrote

Nothing says, "I have everything to hide," then a move like this. Well done, Modi.

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MrStomp82 t1_j5ohtm5 wrote

Nothing would guarantee students would see it more than telling them not to watch it lol

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Adenoid_Hinkel t1_j5ojd8k wrote

I wasn't planning on spending my evening watching a documentary about the leader of a foreign country, but now I am. Well done at the whole hiding information thing, Mr. Prime Minister.

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_j5ou69t wrote

I got a call from some scam about my computer virus program expired and this is support. So I asked the fellow, clearly speaking with an Indian/Hindi accent, "Did you watch the BBC documentary on Modi?"

He hung up after swearing something (bozdicke or similar sounding) about my mother. Hey, if that works...I'm gonna watch this Documentary and take notes!

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reddteddledd t1_j5oubcq wrote

Nothing screams I am innocent, than trying to block any critic

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Sunapr1 t1_j5oxxpa wrote

Yay I am an Indian and thos documentary is already viral within my college 😆

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Xanthus179 t1_j5ozplx wrote

Reading bad today. I was confused for a moment about why IU wouldn’t want their students to watch this.

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Dtsung t1_j5ozq3b wrote

We all know what happen when you tell student not to do sonething

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Showerthawts t1_j5ozwa0 wrote

When is India going to kick Tripathi Trump to the curb?

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unforgiven91 t1_j5p0593 wrote

I haven't done any research, but is the documentary factual? Or is it another "2000 mules" scenario?

If it's factual, then lol. fuck modi

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darthveda t1_j5p50gu wrote

One should never ban anything, banning it causes it get more traction and defeats the purpose of the ban itself. exceptions are always there like revenge porn, child porn, etc..

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Cynykl t1_j5p6aee wrote

Nord VPN sales just skyrocket on that campus.

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danny_gil t1_j5p6p1r wrote

Do they know about the Streisand effect?

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sasksasquatch t1_j5pb5mh wrote

That is basically a way to make sure they all watch it, tell them they aren't allowed to watch, and then they will be wanting to watch it to see why it is banned.

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Taniwha_NZ t1_j5pd2d1 wrote

Replying to Adenoid_Hinkel (#1,466,666)

He doesn't care about us watching it, nor even the tech-savvy indians who know how to get around the ban.

He cares about his voting base, the hundreds of millions of poor or poor-ish indians who have kept him in power and don't really use the internet to search for stuff. The ones who stick to facebook and a handful of other major sites.

As long as the people who actually vote for him don't see it, that's all that really matters.

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Factsaretheonlytruth t1_j5pfcmo wrote

Best way to get young people to do something is to tell them they ae not allowed, so...

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cone10 t1_j5pgh0j wrote

The only university left in India -- Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) -- where the students have any fighting spirit. Kudos to them. Also a sign of how effectively dissent has been crushed everywhere else.

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MerryGoWrong t1_j5pitt3 wrote

Modi is apparently unfamiliar with the Streisand Effect.

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aarocka t1_j5pjfpk wrote

Lmao that dude is a fascist that was unable to put the poo in the loo and various false promises

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JPINFV2 t1_j5prkrs wrote

Instructions unclear. Modi has a BBC?

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MpVpRb t1_j5psk8r wrote

Bit by bit they are making the documentary irresistible

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GlitteringNinja5 t1_j5pvs1v wrote

Replying to Taniwha_NZ (#1,469,811)

You misunderstand. A lot of people (and i mean a lot) vote for him because of what he "allegedly" did in gujarat. The opposition parties despite being in power for 10 years after the riots couldn't do anything to him. This BBC documentary ain't gonna do shit. The opposition parties are as weak as ever.

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Snoo98655 t1_j5q1z5f wrote

This should take his approval rating to an all time low of 75 percent.

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Thomk065 t1_j5q31xt wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,471,980)

What do you think the “left”doing? The left doesn’t shoot at politicians homes, or break in when a hammer, they don’t storm capitals, they don’t take automatic weapons into places on the name of a reality star. So, I’m confused.

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LevelMedicine3539 t1_j5q6kkr wrote

Replying to Taniwha_NZ (#1,469,811)

You are wrong. His base knows what he did, that's why they voted for him. They are as rabid and hateful as their leader. This is more about saving his face in the world stage. So I would suggest everyone who can watch it to to watch it.

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AtomicBlastCandy t1_j5q7pvj wrote

A lot of Indians are Hindu nationalists. I think watching this documentary might actually raise his numbers.

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ThatFlyingScotsman t1_j5q8fpv wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,473,226)

The group of people attacking others in the theatre is just fascism. Violence to prevent the spread of information by civilians in service to the state with which they have no official connection to other than ideological. India is fucked.

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ultratorrent t1_j5qagzl wrote

Don't project it on the outside of university buildings? Because I'd be screening it on every available screen, as publicly as possible for reasons of not trusting people when they demand things like this. Why are we hiding from reality here, but other cultures don't hide from it?

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Starbuckshakur t1_j5qeuab wrote

>Indian university reports power cut

They must have hired the same people who were in charge of maintaining the cameras in Epstein's cell.

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BD_9x t1_j5qfajw wrote

Guess now I know what to watch tonight

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Bacon1884 t1_j5qntyb wrote

😂 definitely watching this sh**

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AlesusRex t1_j5qr8zx wrote

Right, because telling young men and women who are going to university to actively seek out knowledge to then not, view something, is a great idea

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ronin_codex t1_j5qsbms wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,473,586)

This Argument is quite interesting. All this controversy made me watch the Documentary and the way it has represented facts it's dubious. There's nothing new the finding is saying that has already been not known to any Indian or the Supreme court of india. One question that really comes to my mind is the timing at which this documentary is released.

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Mushroom_Tip t1_j5qsgss wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,471,980)

Funny you say that given that we have a certain "anti-woke" governor that is forcing school teachers to remove their classroom libraries just in case the books have something that might offend a conservative, cancelling college-level courses because they might offend someone, and replacing college boards with climate change deniers and covid conspiracists.

Why don't you go ahead and tell us why that's different.

Which do you think is a more apt comparison to this story an India, a power hungry politician censoring education to boost his chances at winning the Republican nomination or some students protesting things they dislike (whether those things are silly or not is another question)?

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ronin_codex t1_j5qtwsk wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,475,240)

Yeah exactly. Without citing your source how can you verify it's credibility? Also I don't get why the government banned it. I'm not in support of the ban. Personally I think this must have been seen in masses by people to make things more clear. I don't think someone will go to that length to make Rishi Sunak look that bad. Still this controversy is going to help modi more then the damage other think he was going to get.

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oogly24 t1_j5r4hld wrote

Replying to LevelMedicine3539 (#1,473,083)

Yeah his main base is extremely proud of the fact their people got away with all the lyncing, raped and burning people alive (warning it is extremely deptessing). Delve into it a bit and you can see the hatred. There's also plenty of folk in the UK and US who feel this way too, they can be found excusing it all and victim blaming easily enough online and even Reddit.

He's literally their man and will always support him as he only did what they fantasised about.

The rabbit-hole gets pretty grotty though so it might not be even worth wondering how he got away with it on the World stage.

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alaralpaca t1_j5r5krq wrote

These people will never understand the Streisand effect

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ronin_codex t1_j5r72ym wrote

Replying to confidelight (#1,474,260)

Because based on the central Government the university officials are inclined to a particular ideology. Now the central government is currently politically Right wing so anything that's causing them trouble or might caught them trouble will be banned. The vice versa happens when the central government is following any other ideology. In short the university is full of shit show on a daily basis and students are just a tool to satisfy someone else's agenda. (I'm currently in the same university and know people who organized the event).

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dagbiker t1_j5r7a8o wrote

There is no war in Ba Sing Sae.

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HustlinAndGrindin t1_j5r7sgn wrote

They will try to cause destabilization and demoralize India. India must watch out.

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Street-Engineer-5079 t1_j5rfal1 wrote

From what I studied in last few years it's very clear that Hindu-majority governments, discriminate Muslims, minorities and lower caste groups, such as Dalits and Shudras. This worsened under the current administration led by Modi, as the government has been abusing the power to control the media, businesses, police, and courts. I think that these marginalized communities may require international support in order to defeat this extremist government. Well Done BBC!

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Aurion7 t1_j5rhuc5 wrote

Well, that's one way to ensure people hear about said doc's existence.

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Aurion7 t1_j5ri648 wrote

Replying to HustlinAndGrindin (#1,476,965)

I'm not sure if this comment points to colossal ignorance (no one has made a Churchill doc? Really?) or if it points to you just throwing disconnected phrases around desperately hoping they equate to a rebuttal.

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Aurion7 t1_j5rilxp wrote

Replying to Showerthawts (#1,468,435)

Modi is considerably more popular in India than Trump ever was here, which is in its own way a very interesting commentary.

There will be people who try to deny the events mentioned in the doc on the internet, then they'll turn around and vote for him precisely because of what happened. Always an interesting phenomenon.

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SemiDesperado t1_j5rjzll wrote

At first I thought it said Indiana University and was very confused...

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Severe-Experience333 t1_j5rkuzu wrote

Replying to Taniwha_NZ (#1,469,811)

People here vote for him BECAUSE of the things he did/ is doing. Like arundhati Roy said at the end of episode 2, I just hope there is record out there that not all of us are with this. There will be no change and no help. This is the new normal.

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hawkseye17 t1_j5rmu3f wrote

Streisand Effect about to strike again

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Bnagorski t1_j5rwybo wrote

Totally the best way to get college students to not do something.

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vpsj t1_j5yfw8o wrote

Replying to ghostalker4742 (#1,475,000)

Oh it definitely is. I mean, I already knew most of what's in the documentary (his "alleged" role in the Gujarat riots) but for an outsider I think it's a very important documentary to watch

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dajadf t1_j622qxw wrote

I'm pretty sure every single indian college student knows how to access this

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