[1sembiyan]

1. No press freedom: what explains the presence and popularity of the wire, scroll, news minute, the quint, etc? Traditional print media that’s critical of the current party in power includes The Hindu, Telegraph etc. That there’s no press freedom is false.

2. Ethno-nationalist state: what ethnicity are we talking about here? BJP loses often in elections locally, and majority of their opponents are Hindus.

What India has always been is illiberal. You are weakening your point by exaggerating the current conditions.

Moreover this prosed ban is because we have an overzealous bureaucracy that doesn’t understand technology and does not care to. It’s got nothing to do with what India has become.

[supriyo-biswas]

As a data point, the previous government that grandparent speaks of also has been involved in actual suspension of democracy, abolition of press rights, and jailing of opposition leaders[1].

Indian administrations have always have had an authoritarian bent regardless of who has been in power.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)