Internet Archive Takes Down BBC’s Documentary on PM Modi: Report

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44 points·elashri··4 comments

The uploads may have been in breach of copyright and removed by the BBC. But more concerning are the YouTube uploads (removal requests are available publicly by the Indian state).

A foreign state now has the power to remove content from YouTube it does not like which has an international impact and prevents everyone from viewing it, it's not just geo banned. This is very scary and is not being spoken about. They can censor content on an international scale.

How has this been allowed to happen?

>How has this been allowed to happen? I'll give you a hint:

"The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees..."

Corruption rules everything around us.

Many nation states do not have freedom of speech and have laws that content can be taken down if it is considered bad - and the definition of bad is always changing based on the current ruling party.

Thus, they might have just the threatened YouTube with domain level blocking if laws of the land are not followed.

Also I am not sure, why the ruling party is so uppity about this documentary. It doesn’t even show Modi in too much of a bad light. Basically just shows that he was incompetent in stopping riots.

Also not sure, but does the BBC have an agenda with releasing this documentary now on an event that happened around two decades back.

Internet Archive has been known to erase "problematic" content (however that's defined changes of course), so this isn't surprising.

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