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News & Current Events Apr 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM

Indian government has subjected several American companies to an “increasing number of takedown requests” since 2021 for content and user accounts online related to matters that appear “politically motivated”, a United States government report has said.

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US government report says India’s online takedown rules appear ‘politically motivated’
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US government report says India’s online takedown rules appear ‘politically motivated’
Under the 2021 IT rules, criminal liability is imposed on employees if the firm fails to comply, which US stakeholders find ‘concerning’, Washington noted.

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JoplinSC742 4 days ago +19
Slightly related, does anyone know how the Indian crackdown on telemarketer scams is going?
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sriki 4 days ago +30
going pretty similar to how US crackdown on drugs is going on.
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tekina7 4 days ago
Very well, if you ask the local politicians and police. Meaning, their pockets are stuffed with the scam money and there are no issues
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Southern-Reveal5111 4 days ago -8
Transnational crimes are difficult to prosecute. Maybe you guys should give more concrete information like location, name of the owners.
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Tresialwe 4 days ago +1
India does not like it when you criticize them and will go to great lengths to censor you. See how they assassinated that Canadian guy and tried assassinating that American guy.
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wasbatmanright 4 days ago +20
That is not a saint Canadian critic but a known separatist with terrorism links of Babbar khalsa known for bombing of Air India in 80s. When such assassinations are carried out in iran and against Hamas people celebrate
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Appropriate_Link_551 4 days ago +5
Doesn’t matter how justified, the host nation is always gonna be pissed if you assassinate someone in its territory. You either extradite cooperatively, or accept the diplomatic hit. I don’t think india is being singled out here, it would be the same for anyone
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AggravatingJudge7092 4 days ago +4
If some guy tried to blow up a Canadian or American airplane and then was taken in by say, Russia, or something where he would continue to plan more bombings, would Canadians or Americans "take the diplomatic hit" ? F*** no! Obviously I can't say if they would try to assassinate him (Wouldn't be above the US for sure) but they would absolutely sanction the shit out of Russia for something like this.
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koolaidkirby 4 days ago +2
More context, India did try to extradite him but IIRC the Canadian government said the evidence was lacking/unable to meet Canadian standards while India claimed Canada just ignored the request. Neither counrty has released anything detailed on the subject so it was all finger pointing. Nonetheless the Canadian government felt there was enough evidence to put him on the no fly list and was monitoring him so it felt very much like a "they gave us enough evidence for us to keep an eye on him but not enough to jai/extradite him" thing. 
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AggravatingJudge7092 4 days ago +1
India didnt just say that they ignored the "request". In 2006, (decades after the incident) the Canadian government finally formed an independent "commission of inquiry" for the disaster, and it took them 4 years to assimilate everything into a lengthy document titled "‘Air India Flight 182: A Canadian Tragedy". It went into great detail about the multitude of careless mistakes by Canadian intelligence that led to the disaster. The conclusion was that the Canadian intelligence agency had a multitude of evidence already in their possession that if heeded could have saved the 329 people (of which 300+ were canadian citizens), despite the knowledge of the threat of sabotage, Transport Canada and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Protective Policing continued to rely on passive anti-hijacking security measures despite having the prior knowledge of an imminent attack. It also wrote about the poor treatment of the victim's families after the attack, and the failure to apprehend those involved in the attack. So what India was saying is that they completely dropped the ball on the entire thing, including the extradition requests of course.
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koolaidkirby 3 days ago +1
I mean, Air India flight 182 was a different guy. That happened when Hardeep Singh Nijjar was 7 years old so not related to the extradition request. Might as well bring up the FLQ handling for how relevant it is to the extradition request
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AggravatingJudge7092 3 days ago +2
Whoops, I guess I misinterpreted what we were talking about. I believe I saw another comment about a plane hijacking and linked your comment with it subconsciously.
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koolaidkirby 3 days ago +2
All good.
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UseUrBrainForOnce 3 days ago -2
Not surprised at all. Modi tries to suppress dissent and criticism and has been eroding parliamentary, and other, conventions throughout his decade+ long tenure.
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koolaidkirby 4 days ago
Billion people tho
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DeepResearch7071 3 days ago +4
TFR was at 1.9 in 2023, likely even lower now. Seriously, try reading sometimes. Or even Googling
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