India’s government wants total control of the internet

They may even require that all compute happen locally. And of course that all content and so on meet local regulations. Sort of like what we see with other telecommunication, be it T-mobile or other. Sure, they operate in many countries, but they have local staff and follow local rules.

What makes you think those in power won't abuse them as early and often as possible?

The original rush to remove the content was fueled by alot of publicity around the documentary.

Speak for yourself. As an Indian, I don't want the government telling me what I can't watch.

> investigated by various courts including the Supreme Court of India

The same Supreme Court also ruled that the 2G Scam did not happen. Would you like to acquire an ownership interest in the Bandra-Whorli Sea Link?

> Will BBC make a documentary about the many crimes the British did in India?

They did even in the face of backlash from British Nationalists: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/historians-accuse-bbc-new...

> taint his image, and even destabilize India

So, Modi is India and India is Modi?

https://archive.org/details/india.-the.-modi.-question.-s-01...

And I wonder if that BBC link works in India. Or if this one does: https://btdig.com/search?q=modi+question&order=2

This leaves them with two choices - either they stop doing business in said countries, or maximize profits by conducting business in those countries by loosening their belief system to include the countries' negatives, such as censorship of political discourse in this case.

Being based out of mostly western countries, corporations like Google and Microsoft found the belief system of quitting Russian business initiatives as most acceptable to the public, and hence executed that plan. A western worldview where it may have been more acceptable for Russia to initiate a war would have resulted in a different outcome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Do you really believe big tech cared about some wArCrImEs, instead of getting a call from their lobbyist/investor/gov.account advising them to play along, or else?

JFYI, YouTube (and the whole of Google) is still operational in Russia, I can still use my iPhone, pay for iCloud, and buy a new one as soon as I want.

Business is business, I don't understand why people ever suppose it would be fighting for their political goals.

There has been no evidence of BJP rigging National or state elections until now. In fact parties like TMC which progressive media often hail for opposing BJP have been found to indulge in electoral violence and rigging [1]. These parties run unhindered in what english media essentially calls the Nazi regime of Modi.

Where is the evidence for BJP winning due to suppressing political parties? A political party or politician who you don't like being elected (in free and fair elections) does not qualify.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/tmc-accused...

EDIT: sidenote: Electoral violence seems to mainly be an issue in West Bengal. Other states have a lot of issues but the scale of gratuitous bloodshed that follows elections is a unique characteristic of the state. That no Indian government past or current has tackled this issue, only speaks for the inability of the Indian state to effectively project hard power.

Also thank you for proving my point above. Lol

They have a large support from other castes now because Muslims are the enemies now. Until this narrative stays they will stay.

This tribal president and the previous dalit president are exactly what I mean by their election winning formula. I'm not sure what's illogical in any of this because this is literally what they themselves speak about in every election meeting.

In Telangana, someone was arrested for making fun of the CM’s nose: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/andhra-student-arre...

These are all parties that are opposed to the BJP. I wish there were parties that are committed to liberalism, rule of law and institution building in India. Not very optimistic at the moment.

But otherwise agree with you. Yogi Adityanath another possible successor to Modi is also not from a privileged background.

The EU tried to grow some local big techs with government subsidies but the results were predictably garbage. The Airbus business model doesn't transfer well to consumer technology. If the EU really wants homegrown big techs then they need to reduce employee protections, eliminate red tape, encourage venture capital markets, and make business bankruptcies easier.

As a US citizen and strong advocate of civilian relations across geography, I have to object to throwing out all possibilities in a bitter moment of finger pointing. "Increasingly" is weasel words, just say "know" :-)

I think the better model is for companies to stand by their morals (even if they're weak) rather than bending to the unique tyrannical demands of each sovereign nation. Microsoft's choice here is honestly the most admirable to me, even though I despise them as a company.

The advertising forms sell space to Chinese advertisers, the hardware forms sell their hardware, the software firms... See their software used everywhere, but only sometimes getting paid for it, and are chomping at the bit to turn that around. SAAS vendors are largely getting the short end of the stick, but most of them also make money from one of the fields above.

Cultural exports, mostly in the form of films, of course, are also booming.

If the US, the EU, China, or India says 'jump', most of them will, after complaining about it, eventually ask 'how high'? That's just the nature of the business. (And is why they also have extensive lobbying operations.)

The most I can see is fear-mongering and creating artificial victimhood against them for clout and political reasons, but that happens on both sides and has been happening since time immemorial. If this is about Kashmir, their drastic steps, albeit excessively totalitarian and cruel to Kashmiris, are for retaining their sovereignty before anything else. They would have done the same had there been any other religion.

And don't get me started on Twitter. For every account banned for "misinformation" there are a thousand others that keep on shitting on the administration. It's Twitter for God's sake.

You aren't contributing anything with your ad hominem painting of the entire government as hateful to Muslims other than fear-mongering.

The Congress/UPA's reputation was severely trampled out when BJP/NDA rose to power in 2014, and it hasn't recovered since. BJP has perfected the art of media manipulation and public politics, and is extremely competent in directing and subverting public sentiment; they are one of the biggest populist forces in the world right now with a formidable and highly-skilled marketing force backing its brand (enough to get featured on Harvard whitepapers). More importantly, they learn and adapt quickly to changing environments. For example, after the JNU fiasco they now seem to recognise the importance of moderation and avoid going gung-ho on dissent in practice (e.g. their prolonged tolerance to the Farm Law protests) while keeping a public image of firebrand rightism to maintain their brand. They are intelligent, very intelligent.

Its opposition, meanwhile, has only gone downhill and keeps embarrassing itself. Opposition parties neither have a well-built plan or timeline, nor do they invoke any significant loyalty from voters. They keep infighting and bickering among themselves while retaining dynastic figureheads from an already disgraced family. They're all so in on themselves they still try to use the same half-baked strategies that used to work in the 2000s.

At the end if the majority (mostly boomers) that do not want change continue to do this it is saddening for the young. But of course, when it bites them it may be too late.

Sad but democracy in function.