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"World's biggest democracy"
Yet they do this?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)


India has banned a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago from being shown in the country, in a move critics decried as an assault on press freedom.
The two-part documentary "India: The Modi Question," criticizes Modi, who was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat in 2002 when riots broke out between the state's majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
The BBC said Jack Straw, who was British foreign secretary in 2002 and features in the documentary, claims that Modi had "Played a pre-active part in pulling back the police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists."


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The world really needs to stop this cult of personality bullshit. Can we all just grow up a bit? >

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. >

On what grounds can they ban? It doesn't say. Is it hate speech? Sounds like it's just embarrassing. >

Read George Orwell’s 1984 and it will explain all >

fuck, the next time I am going to promote a movie I need to get someone to try and ban it..I bet endless more people watch this now than before they raised an outcry. Some producer is seeing $ signs. >

I think it’s always important to hear different perspectives without being offended. It seems the world as a whole isn’t of that mind set.