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by flak48 1449 days ago
There's another comment providing more context; Razorpay is facing flak from some folks because it gave up transaction/donor data for a journalist's company. (Razorpay is the payment provider for the journalist's company AltNews)

The India government is actually trying their best to persecute the journalist (Mohd. Zubair) and putting pressure on Razorpay to get to AltNews/Zubair. (The govt. is trying to insinuate that the journalist is writing articles criticizing India on the behest of foreigners - by cooking up allegations that he has been receiving donations from people outside India)

I'm only arguing that it's next to impossible to stand up to the government in India; Razorpay need not be pro-government or anti Alt news, they are likely being forced to comply with the Government's (perhaps extra legal) demands via shady tactics and they need to save their own skin.
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slake 1448 days ago
Umm. Only it's not an allegation anymore. The 'journalist' in question already admitted to receiving foreign donations without having the necessary compliance registrations in place.

This is also leaving out the part that this 'journalist' doctored a video about a person and posted it that is causing islamists to give the person beheading threats. 2 people who supported her have already been beheaded. This 'journalist' also has several allegations of fake news of his own. So it's not so black and white.

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ImPostingOnHN 1448 days ago
did they fill out their 27B-6 forms for the donations?

as for the allegations, I have not seen anything about the video encouraging killing, but have seen lots of coverage of the Indian government looking away from, or participating in, threats and actual violence against non-Hindi Indian citizens

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slake 1447 days ago
An Indian NGO receiving foreign funds requires FCRA registration. That they didn't have.

As to the rest of your comment, his video was doctored to take the statement out of context and aimed at violent islamists to take action against the individual. His specific video is quoted by most of the islamists threatening her with beheading.

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ImPostingOnHN 1446 days ago
the reception rasorry, but "aimed at" sounds suspiciously weaseley, and your focus on how it was received, rather than how it was presented, even moreso.

did the video actually tell people to kill or not?

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