As the democracy of India Disrupted on a daily basis under the direction of Narendra Modi, social media has been operating on behalf of free journalists. As Reporters Without Borders recently stated, journalists in India “are in danger of being fired if they criticize the government.” Since Modi came to power in 2014, India has been on the World Press Freedom Index falls every year, to give at 142 (in 180 countries and territories) between 2020 and 2021.
But Modi is tackling the problem of television as a last resort, through an IT law enacted in February that fights for freedom fighters and affected citizens. Against the law of the land. These new laws give the Indian government the power to regulate their ideas, modern companies and the media are forced to comply. They want the social networking site to be more responsive to the concerns of their content, a public disclosure “founder”The content of the label is — in particular it’s over concealment at the end.
Adding to the oppression is the fact that US technology companies have bowed down to the Modi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. A few weeks before the rules were enacted, Twitter suspension Hundreds of accounts of journalists, journalists, and politicians from opposition parties, among others, at a time when farmers were protesting against new agricultural laws, in addition to banning hundreds of agricultural tweets that the government views “opponent. Similarly, a 21-year-old climate activist who sponsors the demonstrations has been arrested for altering Google Doc and resources to the protesters and the people who support the protests. The police realized that they had changed the document Google shared its information.
The tech giants in America have been doing well for a long time thanks to the use of so-called global south. We have all the time has been a good source of information and companies have entertained dictatorial regimes in exchange for the new headquarters, which has been in high demand.
This will not fail colonial: Where colonial powers sought natural resources, today they require information.
If the platform giants do not comply with India’s new rules, they could lose the market of 1.3 billion people. And it is something they do not want at risk, regardless of the cost that Indians pay.
At the beginning of the epidemic, Big Tech began production holding power the southern hemisphere does not simply rely on technology. It was about expanding the community by taking advantage of the local community.
In April 2020, Facebook accounts for 9.99% ($ 5.7 billion) on Rioance Industries’ platforms Jio, India’s largest mobile operator. In November, WhatsApp finally introduced payment in India. And inside June this year, Google has announced an Android smartphone in partnership with Jio. In the first eight months of the epidemic, the assets of Mukhesh Ambani’s owners are reflected in $ 22 billion.
More than money, however, as these new IT laws are implemented, the gaps between how Big Tech manifests itself in the West as opposed to how it manifests itself in India have grown. In the past, Jack Dorsey’s supporters have fought hard against politicians like Donald Trump, following the January 6 attacks on the Capitol. Dorsey defended banning Trump for “other damage”.
In response, BJP leaders in India he wrote with the support of Trump, he states that “if he can do this at POTUS, he can do it for everyone” and “modern big corporations are now new oligarchs.” Yet he must have known that these companies had adopted the real new oligarchs, too.
India, a land of abundance (and history) Relationship between Hindus and Muslims, a political tweet linking Islam with terrorism was only removed from its ordinance the owner government. Similarly, the media chief at the BJP sent a video stating that the protest against Indian citizenship was “sponsored” by the opposition party – which was found to be false. The tweet is however on the platform without tags proving to be false.
Why is this a contradiction? The question cannot be whether governments in countries like India are solely responsible for democracy. That idea, especially if it exists only in the southern hemisphere, is absurd and traditional. If the Cambridge Analytica story has taught any world, then information can make or break democratic elections everywhere.
