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  No, the previous opposition govt who was very anti Modi. They tried to pin blame on him for a decade but they couldn't. Modi did nothing wrong.
context: Streisand effect.
  Didn’t care about this documentary at all, now I’m definitely going to watch it. >
  
  I've been trying to watch it, but can't find it. The only link I found was for the BBC's own site and they don't let you watch outside the UK
  any alternate links would be appreciated, wanna see this too
  Edit: Got it. Stop being overly original with the VPN suggestion. >
  
  Dailymotion!?!? Now there's a blast from the past!! >
  
  It's excellent for piracy largely because people seem to forget it exists. I've watched a lot of documentaries there I couldn't find anywhere else. >
  
  I just watched sasuke 2022 yesterday, because holy shit are they strict with uploads anywhere else on the entire internet. >
  
  I thought this was a Naruto reference but I just discovered something great. Thank you. >
  
  Tx man, was considering moving to the UK >
  
  Gonna move to Gujarat instead? >
  
  I hope OP isn't Muslim, then. >
  
  Or a Lower Caste >
  
  Or just likes clean air and water >
  
  Authoritarians and their love for banning everything >
  
  Have they told Reddit to remove links yet?
  India: The Modi Question - Part 1
  India: The Modi Question - Part 2 >
  
  Unfortunately, that link no longer works. This mirror is still working for now. >
  
  he got immunity now coz he is prime Minister... >
  
  So you are saying its ok for the taliban to enter USA now? >
  
  when did I say that? I just
  told why he is able to travel to US
  it's not on me to decide who gets to or doesn't get to enter US. heck I'm not even a US citizen. >
  
  I mean technically the taliban is now govt official of afghan. Just trying to point out on the absurdities of geopolitics >
  
  Not one country recognizes the Taliban as the Afghan government so they aren't extended any official government designation or the rigths that come with that. Not even Pakistan and the UAE which recognised their previous incarnation before the bin Laden attacks. >
  
  There's no point. There isn't a single person who blindly believe and follow the government will change their views after watching this documentary and will just call it a “western propaganda” and move on. Only people who will believe this are ones who already know most of it. So there's just no point to this. >
  
  Exactly, the very same thing happened here in Brazil. Far-right president Bolsonaro literally posting a video on his own channel saying he'd like to eat human flesh and didn't lose a single vote for that. His supporters would just say it was "out of context" >
  
  There’s nothing the far-right and autocratic governments fear more than free flow of information and proper education for the masses. >
  
  Bad information and bad education? Let 'er rip! >
  
  Because they can't face the truth. >
  
  That was the long plan all along. Starting with the cowardly murder of Mahatma Gandhi by their religious fanatic predecessors. >
  
  Did Indians really believe the RSS and BJP had changed, or did they just hate Muslims so much they were willing to sacrifice democracy in exchange? >
  
  They just wanted change from the then current regime which was already grown /seen as corrupt from years and years of rule 
  There was also a feeling of stagnation and apathy to politics in most of the population (from anecdotal evidence) which the Modi campaign strongly addressed by making new bold promises based on some economic gains in his State. 
  So Imo, it wasn't the social factors that initially had them voted in but the economic/commerce ones. 
  Even today that is a major part of their campaigns. 
  So basically sacrificing some social/democratic freedoms for economic prosperity. A similar deal to ones made by Singapore and China in the past. 
  Note: This is just my observation/analysis based on being on ground and consuming information from multiple sources. This comment is not intended to promote any political org or take any particular stance. Peace. >
  
  Thanks, so as I understand it, India's economy under the Indian National Congress was schlerotic and the Indian voter turned to the BJP in order to deliver the same sort of economic growth Modi oversaw in Gujarat. And if that that democracy would be endangered and Indian Muslims were going to be persecuted, that was a sacrifice they were willing to make. That's one hell of a devil's bargain.
  As someone on the ground, what are your thoughts concerning the sacrifices made and the economic gains received in return? From the outside, it looks like India is poised to take off economically thanks to cheap Russian oil, capturing the manufacturing getting out of China, and India's own demographic dividend, but it seems like many of that is happening in spite of Modi's policies, not because of them. >
  
  WHile initially sold on the idea of economic prosperity and upliftment, eventually most BJP votes came from place of hate for muslims and other minorities. Nowadays the economic wellbeing isnt even an importnant political discourse. It's people who want to save the secular nature of India vs Modi supporters who want to dominate Indian social fabric. >
  
  
  Nowadays the economic wellbeing isnt even an importnant political discourse. It's people who want to save the secular nature of India vs Modi supporters who want to dominate Indian social fabric.
  
  That makes some sense, because now being the ruling party, it's not a great sell to dwell solely on economics as that opens them to criticism of some bad decisions during their administration.  
  Rather it's easier to deflect to other topics to cast light away from criticisms. While continuing to amp up [only] positive data regarding economics. Discourse opens one to criticism. But positive seeming data is still announced and pushed widely.
  
  It's people who want to save the secular nature of India vs Modi supporters who want to dominate Indian social fabric.
  
  That is seemingly the most loud part of the discussions yes. 
  But imo the considerations IRL are more complex than that one single factor. 
  I don't think it's right to flatten voters into abstract crudely labelled camps like that. This eventualy leads to situation in the US where there's othering of all voters not voting as you, rather than discussing all topics intensively and letting people vote as per the weightage they then personally assign to different concerns. >
  
  Pussyassbitch modi is scared of the truth >
  
  This is a clear admission that the documentary is exposing the truth.....
  The BBC's policy ( don't forget it's owned by the public not the government or private company) clearly states that any article or story that is challenged by the people involved have the right to the same amount of airtime to respond to the article....... so if it's not true Modi has the right to put his side out there..
  Demanding social media sites remove the sites that report and discuss the issue doesn't give the best impression......
  Just imagine the president of the US or the prime minister of any western countries decided that they will not attend any interviews either public or private.That means they don't need to be answerable to the people or account for their decisions and behaviour....
  Modi is not so far from the leaders like Putin or Erdogan of Turkey....... >
  
  how is there any proof that supports these claims? the investigation on this topic happened when congress(the opposition) was in power. so all this documentary does is say that all the institutions of india and the opposition are both working for modi since before he even came to power(which is just a stupid thing to say).
  He hasn't come out against the riots publicly and thats the only thing thats considered wrong on his part, and it is a political decision as far as i can tell. >
  
  Basically this action is an admission of wrong doing, be it legal or moral >
  
  I really appreciate that this documentary covers Godra Train burning properly and doesn't try to play it down. >
  
  
  They recently proposed modification to our laws that if the government deemed anything to be "fake", it would have to be taken down from all digital channels.
  
  What could possibly go wrong?
  Is there any system of (reliable, transparent etc.) review for this process, or does the government just get to define the "reality" Indians are allowed to experience? >
  
  Even if there was a reliable review process it would be corrupted by special (and wealthy) interests. >
  
  Watching it now, thanks Indian Government for pointing out this documentary. >
  
  So much for 'democracy" in India. >
  
  You really like RT for some reason. >
  
  No. >
  
  Acting like a dictatorship? So much for the biggest democracy in world... >
  
  They can always file a case against the ban in Indian court and this is what makes India a democracy. >
  
  I wish whoever good luck with that. >
  
  I can just smell the sweat from the CCP bots and the Modi bots fighting over this story. >
  
  They will fight because they are bots with orders to fight, but many of their larger objectives could be complementary and cooperation could be mutually beneficial. >
  
  I can't believe after almost 2 decades later, ppl are finding out Modi and his Hindutva goons were responsible for Muslim massacres under his leadership in the vilest act of mob lynching in Gujrat. He was called a butcher for no reason! >
  
  Never heard someone calling modi butcher >
  
  Time to download backup copies. >
  
  This is a perfectly normal action for a democracy. /s >
  
  These days it is. >
  
  Hindutva Reddit is pretty butthurt over this lol >
  
  Why would I be butthurt >
  
  Upvoting and Commenting for visibility! >
  
  Just a note:
  After 10 hours, as of this posting, not a single person has proved the documentary is wrong.
  Not. One. >
  
  Would be hard to do considering that the BBC directly asked pro-BJP officials and commentators for their opinions and presented them in this doc. If they wanted to make a simple propaganda piece, the BBC wouldn't have given these people a platform to proclaim their own views. >
  
  Thanks for the reminder! I'm going to watch it now. :) >
  
  India wake up. This is the road to dictatorship. >
  
  Not taking the word of the guy who confirmed WMDs in Iraq as gospel truth is the path to dictatorship. Got it. >
  
  Censoring content nationwide that is negative to the government is the path to dictatorship.
  Of course, you may respond "the whole documentary, including the interviews with pro-BJP Indians, is fake." But then, why is the government so offended by it? Just call it "a theory debunked by our Supreme Court " and move on. >
  
  That's what I've been saying, we should hold free screening to show the countrymen that the Brits have finally lost it. It's the comedic blockbuster of this year. Imagine a documentary on holocaust and in it they say we got no idea who did it. Some say it might be Nazis but we can't say for sure. >
  
  You guys making it big news tbh, this Gujarat riots is spoken by every Modi opponents in every election. It won't affect anything. He is just diverting topic. With Ram mandir forming in January, He probably again use Hindutva for winning >
  
  It's not the crime. It's the cover-up >
  
  It's also the crime. >
  
  Add India to the list of nations with neofascist governments now. >
  
  Now? It's been that since 2014 >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  New Delhi: News reports on Saturday revealed that the Narendra Modi government has asked both YouTube and Twitter to remove links posting the BBC documentary about the 2002 Gujarat communal violence.
  According to the Indian Express, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed YouTube to block multiple videos all of which had contained episode 1 of the BBC documentary.
  'India: The Modi Question,' looks at "The tensions between Prime Minister Modi and the country's Muslim minority", as well as "Investigating claims" concerning his role in the large-scale communal violence that erupted in Gujarat in the months of February and March, in 2002, that left "Over a thousand dead.".
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: documentary^#1 Modi^#2 tweet^#3 India^#4 government^#5 >
  
  Indian media keeps referring to pogroms and lynchings as "communal violence". >
  
  Link please…I wanna know what he did now! >
  
  Modi is a Hindu nationalist and head of a far-right nationalist party. When he was Chief Minister of Gujarat a train caught on fire. Modi blamed it on “Muslim terrorists” and actively encouraged Hindus to attack Muslim citizens. This led to large scale rioting which left many people (mostly Muslim) dead. >
  
  People like you just see the news from surface and believe it as a truth the train was deliberately being fired by vora people of muslim community in godhra a muslim majority area because the train was on its way from babri masjid where mosque was demolished cause it was build on the hindu temple and hindus were returning back to their home from that demolition and fumed muslim burnt down the train while people where in their 
  So please do atleast a bit of your research before saying something like this on sensitive issue like this. >
  
  Unbiased proof to back up your claims? >
  
  No. Because that court is in no way “unbiased”. And I worry about anyone who thinks it is. >
  
  If you don't believe in a supreme court of India's unbiasness than why bbc is suddenly interfering in this riot when election will be held in year and now if you think about the larger picture u can understand bbc is just being used to grow hate for indian government in power so now can you withstand bbc's almighty unbiasness while making this documentary >
  
  Anti Muslim Modi supporter spotted. You aren't fooling anyone with your lies. >
  
  Say all you want but your showing nothing other than your clawness if you can't counter me without a intellectual answer than you can scream at your top your lung about your opinion on me for countering with source while being asked for it not like you who has nothing to answer than degradeing me >
  
  What do you mean by "your showing nothing other than your clawness"? >
  
  People tend to forget about the Wayback Machine. >
  
  Doesn’t really work for videos. >
  
  You tend to share the characteristics of the people you hang out with. Maybe he should hang out with Putin less. >
  
  What idiots lol I only know this documentary because they tried to ban it lol .. but I know he sucks anyway so what’s to even watch >
  
  A genocide of Muslims to put it bluntly. The riots that happened under his leadership and possibly under his command or instigation killed mostly our fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, and also some people who haven’t had anything to do with our people at all. Tonnes of innocent people died during that atrocity. >
  
  Damnnn, censorship >
  
  You know you're guilty as fuck when you need factual information on your taken off the internet. >
  
  I already knew the guy was a criminal, I'm going to watch it, fuck Modi. >
  
  Time to take down India's propaganda bait threads then. >
  
  Yeah just give fElon musk a few minutes and he will do it. >
  
  Thanks to modi govt now more people are going to watch this lol >
  
  Genuine question. What if those platforms just…. don’t do that? >
  
  Everybody knows that this right wing nutjob and his group orchestrated and executed it killing millions in their bigotry, he is like Trump on steroids, hell he makes Trump look like Lincoln in comparison that is how much of a piece of shit he and everyone who supports him. >
  
  Streisand effect >
  
  India following the path of the CPC. >
  
  Historical facts are hard to remove completely.  Modi is about to play whack a mole with the internet.....some of us have pictures of what he was so proud of the day it  occured >
  
  This only tells me that BBC was right >
  
  Glad to see freedom of speech and information is alive and well here in the land of the free… >
  
  Modi can eat a bag of dicks >
  
  Obligatory, Modi ki najaayaz auladein now being tired of downvoting this thing. >
  
  The harder you try to erase something the more popular that something will get. Now I want to watch it too. I wouldn't have cared or looked otherwise. >
  
  Remember when PewDiePie trolled them so hard with Bitch Lasagna they banned the video in their country. >
  
  Everybody including him knew T-Series and another channel (CocoMelon iirc) was gonna overtake him soon, he made the contest a bit more spicy and kept handing them multiple Ls until the Christchurch shooting happened. >
  
  He fooled guys like you to get more subscribers for his channel. >
  
  I'm not even subscribed to him lmao >
  
  Doubt that >
  
  Hooray for corporate censorship! >
  
  This is not corporate. This is government censorship. >
  
  Where's this doc you speak of how do I find it? Honestly don't people understand the Streisand effect? >
  
  Coughs...  Tiananmen Square Massacre... China Suppression Tactic coughs.... >
  
  The difference being China doesn’t try to pass as a democratic country. >
  
  By the looks of it, neither is India. >
  
  BARBARA STREISAND >
  
  Modi is a coward like so other gujjus. >
  
  Why are u brining Gujjus into this? >
  
  Just some idiot bringing casual racism in. >
  
  Pfft, like Google will listen to a mere government. >
  
  /s <- that's definitely needed I'm not so sure if you're serious. >
  
  “You have no power here!” Theoden/The Internet >
  
  No wonder Indians support ruZZia, they no longer live in a democracy >
  
  I thought it was common knowledge? Anyway, I hope the disgusting animals who burned the train down get what they deserve >
  
  But not those who murdered innocents after? >
  
  Huh, where do I say that? Don’t put words in my mouth love 😘 >
  
  Modi looks like that guy that comes into the liquid store I work at everyday and still can’t find the cheap ass port. >
  
  Will bbc make a documentary about Kashmir genocide as well as its 30 years old case. >
  
  Whatabout? >
  
  I see you have nothing to refute- so you go with usual  party trick “whataboutism”.
  You just can’t admit it’s a propaganda piece just coz you hate the guy or Indians or whatever your reason are even if it is only one sided - the bbc took 20 years after the riots  they publish as a documentary - the timing is impeccable just when elections are in horizon.
  What were they doing all these years? 
  If they were researching all these years, when will they broadcast their findings of other riots of india and other countries like Armenia, Rwanda etc? >
  
  You can’t prove the BBC is wrong so you are resorting to Whataboutism.
  Fact. >
  
  Only thing people of India believe it's 100% truth and accept it without a doubt is Supreme court of India. >
  
  The same Supreme Court ruling cited in this documentary? Curious. >
  
  According to most trustworthy BBC documentary Train caught fire on it's own and almost 50 Hindus died due to accident. 
  BBC documentary is based on investigation done by Jack, same guy who also confirmed WMD in Iraq. Sure I should trust BBC documentary. >
  
  And the 1,000+ who died after - how did that happen? >
  
  I never said 1000 people didn't died. Neither I support that.
  Partially showing fact = propaganda. >
  
  Noting that you haven’t proven anything, including that the BBC is wrong. >
  
  Often propaganda looks legit, showing half truth is propaganda. >
  
  Still no evidence whatsoever that the BBC is wrong... >
  
  For court half fact is wrong! Hence it is wrong >
  
  Still waiting... >
  
  BBC is a partisan propaganda outfit hack pushing its own narratives and agenda.They completely flipped on their coverage on the AZOV battalion from 2014. 
  This is BBCs agenda to really draw Sunak into the mix and claim ties with the Modi govt. >
  
  Why didn’t you prove the BBC wrong then? >
  
  They aren’t wrong. The BJP/Modi govt was complicit in the riots in 2002. It’s been 20 years and the people of India still want Modi as their PM. That’s what a democracy is. 
  What’s more important is BBC are doing this now the same year India is the leader of the G20, didn’t go with the West on Ukraine, and are on their path up in the global sense. >
  
  
  That’s what a democracy is. 
  
  Do you think it's democratic to ban truthful documentaries because they show the government in a poor light? >
  
  Realpolitik - every government puts it’s own interests over others. Nothing any Western govt wouldn’t do. 
  Anyway, outside Reddit and Twitter, this documentary is going to have 0 effect on Modi in India. I’ve watched the documentary and it fails to show any conclusive evidence about what happened. Most of it is just hearsay >
  
  At least in the US, the government CAN’T do this. >
  
  Lol - Julian Assange is wanted by the US government for leaking its secrets. Edward Snowden had to leave the county after he leaked the secrets. 
  All and every country does what’s best for its interests. 
  Every single protestor at the Capitol is actively being pursued by the government to be fined and jailed. >
  
  This guy definitely a Pakistani. No way to earn money except on crumbs of pakistani army propanda machinery or begging to the world. Look at this guy reddit history. >
  
  Welp he is def all in on Russia and crazy town dictatorship ruling with new
  World order style
  Hopefully he remains chill with US so they can help them
  When China take over their country
  Good luck India >
  
  To all peps who want reply of documentary from Indian side don’t downvote engage in debate so all perspectives can be heard.
  •BBC is preaching that how govt didn’t stop the riots and encouraged the killings 
  • first of all riots were out of hand. both sides were engaging in fights with weapons and everyone was filled with rage to kill one and other 
  •it’s very very difficult to manage and control the full raged state big as Gujarat. even countries like USA,UK are not able to control violent protests and riots 
  •how state government would be able to control it 
  •In big situations like this state government takes every decision with help of central government
  (Ask any questions I’ll be happy to answer) >
  
  Why did Modi call for an early election right after the riots and call refugees baby making factories?
  Why was one of the main accused a member of his cabinet till 2014. And is still out on bail as we speak? >
  
  The supreme court of... India? Whose government is controlled by... Modi? Colour me shocked.