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When Europe banned Russian press was that press intimidation?

I'm not sure if the BBC documentary is comparable to what RT has been doing.

You have people like Margarita Simonyan calling for violence against Ukranians, Anton Krasovsky calling for the murder of Ukrainian kids, etc.

Has the BBC done anything like that in the past, say, 50 years?

RT were banned, and for a specific reason, whether or not you agree with it.

If the Indian government have a legitimate complaint against the BBC they should do the same.

This is harassment, designed to intimidate, without providing an actual (valid or not) reason, or being an actual sanction.

Is India afraid of being invaded by Britain? :-)))

It's not like the British haven't done it before, though.

There was no united Indian state though, as the Mughals were falling and the Marathas were just a confederacy. Plus neither of them had nukes.

Russian press that was banned was because they were conducting disinformation, “an operational tool in its assault on Ukraine” https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...

It is repression of journalism/press and saying "but they're bad/wrong" is just a label applied by the powerful to their enemies

So in your logic anyone can say whatever they like and there is no control at all, so lies can spread by malicious actors. I disagree and value this minimal control when exercised properly with checks, which is the case in europe

If people cannot be trusted to distinguish between information and misinformation, and you are a person, how can you then say that you have determined that the BBC documentary Modi has banned is not misinformation? Either people have to be shepherded through the library or they don't.

I didn't determine, but the BBC has a well deserved reputation as do its journalists. Also if Modi had nothing to hide, why these persecutions as opposed to focusing on disputing alleged facts with evidence

Russian press was intimidated and banned by Putin.

The Russian state propaganda outlets operating abroad stopped being even slightly press-like a long time ago.

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