Two days after a report by The Wire pointing out that the Narendra Modi government had blocked the ‘short’ version of a satirical video on the state of democracy in India while the full version existed on YouTube for all to watch, the Indian government succeeded in getting the full version blocked.
https://thewire.in/government/honest-government-ad-short-full-video-blocked
The video in question was published by the Australia-based Juice Media channel on YouTube on June 1. It is an unforgiving satirical take on government overreach in a democracy, narrated in an anodyne public-service-announcement style, as part of the channel’s ‘honest government ad’ series. It focused on several countries – many having gone or going to the polls this year – but most screen time was devoted to India, and how the Modi government has imprisoned opposition leaders, bulldozed minorities’ homes and killed the freedom of expression.
26/06/2024