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.IN does the needful,uses emerg powers to demand takedown of BBC documentary

»www.theregister.com/2023 ··· akedown/
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India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appears to have filed takedown requests to prevent access to a BBC documentary series titled India: The Modi Question that investigates prime minister Narendra Modi's policies and actions toward India's Muslim minority. Modi represents the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has links to organizations that espouse a Hindu nationalist philosophy. Modi has made the city of Varanasi – one of the most important Hindu pilgrimage sites – his power base. The documentary considers Modi's time as chief minister of Gujarat, which in 2002 experienced sectarian riots that left over 1,000 dead – most of them Muslim – after a fire on a train killed over 50 Hindus. Modi has long denied any complicity in the riots, and investigations have found no evidence indicating culpability. The BBC revisiting the incident has stirred considerable ill will in India, with government officials accusing the broadcaster of bias and neo-colonialism. And that's without the documentary even having been shown in India. The film has, however, made it onto the internet. India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting declared that an emergency, using two laws. One is the IT Rules of 2021 which at Section 16 allow for content to be blocked in emergencies. The other is Section 69A of the Information Technology Act of 2000 that allows India's government to block content "in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India." Just how a documentary threatens sovereignty is not explained in the takedown order [PDF] the Ministry sent to Twitter.
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The decision to block the documentary comes amid an increasingly challenging environment for media and freedom of the press under the Modi government, with critical journalists and media subjected to state and judicial harassment. Last year, India slipped eight places in the press freedom index to 150 out of 180 counties, its worst position on record.
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Modi is an Indian problem which requires an Indian solution...