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by thway_nohitler 1447 days 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

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protest...

[2]: https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/explained-who-is-dr-ka...

[3]: https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/kissi-se-na-kehna-m...

3 comments

Please 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

fyi, I get a `page not found` for [3].
Fixed, thanks.
Referencing the BBC and the Wire here is the equivalent of quoting the WaPo when discussing Trump.
presumably you, throwaway_1928, have a personal problem with both, but are not willing to share it
You want him to refer India Today, Timesnow, republic, euro news, danik bhaskar and Dhinamalar?

Or **opIndia?