Ok, now ban it. Liberals, this is your moment. Show us that you are capable of cracking down on fascists, even after you failed spectacularly with Israel.
nargis
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It's not much but it's a step in the right direction.
They even tried to restrict VPN companies by passing a bill that forces them to keep logs. Proton was one of the companies that packed up and left. Good VPN companies don't have servers in India.
*Modi. But yes ... he's kind of a snowflake. Never had a press conference in 11 years, except when he was forced to outside India.
I did think of Nestle as well, and another one, Tata. They're infamous for stealing land belonging to indigenous people in India. In 2006, the state police of the Orissa government shot 12 people, including a child, in a crowd protesting state-sponsored land grabbing. https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/asa200012007en.pdf
The most iron-rich part of India, Bastar, is also the poorest, and with the most number of Maoist militias. This is no coincidence. Tribal people make up only 9% of the country’s population, but more than 40% of the land used to build 'development' projects belonged originally to them. The most mineral rich areas in India, and the world, are some of the poorest because the industries are not publicly owned.
To be honest, I can think of much, much worse. Union Carbide, Adani, Aveo, which was funding a drug epidemic in Nigeria, they're all bad. There's no good capitalist.
I think you should read the sidebar.
It's an unpopular opinion for sure, but I agree. The BBC and AP rarely use the word 'terrorist', and really, how is gunman minimising the horror of the deed? It's a precise word, even if somewhat less emotionally charged than 'terrorist'. The BBC even got into trouble for using militant in the Oct 7 attack, and the UK government is very pro Israel. I don't think it's Modi related.
This is not to condone Pak-funded terrorism, which this undoubtedly was, nothing less than pure evil.
They've been trying to block it since that bomb threat which I think turned out to be a hoax. Lots of terror threat hoaxes which I've been hearing about in the news. But banning proton because of some edgy idiots is dumb
Who, me? I am not from Burgerland. Also, this was done by Italian communists, not superior, enlightened, liberal European society or something. Where are the left parties in Europe, curbing right wing politics? I don't see them. Europe is slowly falling for the same right wing politics. Falling profits and rising inequality will lead to the capitalist class propping right wing governments to suppress dissent by using tired talking points like immigration and 'culture', and, to paraphrase one among those fellows who hanged Mussolini, capital will not be able to preserve itself without killing liberalism to give way to fascism.
I was being flippant. I'm pretty sure the CDU will just move rightward.