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In US terms, Judge Rehnquist just wrote to the Washington Post with a letter titled "Fuck You, You Fascists"

Am I reading this wrong?

I would also like some Indian context I may be missing.

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A popular leader died. The city was closed down. A 21 year old woman posted on fb about people dying everyday and the vanity of closing down the city. Her friend liked it. Both of them were arrested for hate speech.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/two-girls-arrested-for-que...

> In US terms, Judge Rehnquist just wrote to the Washington Post with a letter titled "Fuck You, You Fascists" Am I reading this wrong?

You are reading it wrong. The posted open letter is to the Chief Minister of the state, stating that the arrest was unconstitutional and if the state doesn't take the cops to task, he will have to resort to legal means.

He's a former supreme court judge. A bit of a maverick, unfortunately.

Just a few months ago he wanted to bring in all media (electronic, social, print) under the Press council of India ambit.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3832839.ece

As an Indian, I've tuned myself to ignore his statements completely. This article doesn't belong on HN.

I don't see why it is a bad thing. I did not weigh any positives & negatives, but in India, TV needs to be properly censored. Many political parties have their own News Channels where they twist facts and make own party a hero. There is an example of Sakshi in Andhra Pradesh.

This really needs an attention. And I think by brining TV into PCI, I guess he is trying to attempt to scrub bogus self-promotion of political parties.

Please tell me why this would wrong?

If you ever find yourself saying the words "x needs to be properly censored", you should get a bad taste in your mouth. I would.

> "Many political parties have their own News Channels where they twist facts and make own party a hero."

Your response to this would be to put everyone's speech in the hands of a select few who can filter and pick as they see fit?

We have news channels in the US which twist facts and make their own party a hero as well. One thing you won't find us calling for is censorship. Censorship for "someone's own good" doesn't work in practice. Work on education instead.

We don't in the UK, because we have complicated impatiality laws (if you mention a candidate in an election, you have to mention all the others, and you can have broadcast licenses revoked for being biased - I'm simplifying, but it's a real law. Some students at my old university radio station nearly got the MW license revoked for being dismissive/rude about candidates that they didn't like, and not mentioning everyone.)

On the other hand, we have a rabidly partisan print media instead, which is now moving onto the internet (daily mail, guardian, etc).

>>There is an example of Sakshi in Andhra Pradesh.

The other leading paper eenadu in AP is accused of projecting another leader for decades. (In fact Sakshi was started to counter the propaganda) :)

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