All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has hed The PM and Home MinsterResponsible for Growing Hate Crimes. They have demanded   Compensation of Rs 1 Crore and One Job for each Victim’s Family of the Three Cattle Transport Workers killed in Chhattisgarh/ They have also demanded a Law Against Mob Lynching and Hate Crimes with Fast Track Courts and thatGovernment must Purchase Cattle at Market Rates from Farmers For Full text of Press Release:

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SKM to Restart Agitation on Pending Demands of Guaranteed MSP Law, Loan Waiver, Crop Insurance, Farmers’ and Farmworkers Pension, Rolling Back Privatisation of Power and Other Demands

SKM to Observe 9th August as "Corporates Quit India Day", also Demanding that India come out of WTO and No MNC’s in Agricultural Production and Trade.. For full text of press release dated 11th March

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क्या जेल में CM केजरीवाल को मारने की साजिश रच रही BJP? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxylHzwnM7E  Atishi | CM Arvind Kejriwal Health 14.7.24

Why the New Criminal Laws Are a 'Posthumous Tribute to Lord Macaulay' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmGSvvq0KI8 Jul 14, 2024  The new criminal code and the manner in which it was rolled out has already garnered a lot of controversy. While the government has claimed that it wants to get rid of the laws of the colonial era, this promise has not been realised. Only 5-7% has been changed, says Kapil Sibal.

Congress's Sivaganga MP P. Chidambaram sheds light on the government aspect of the laws and how they are framed and brought to being.

Justice Madan Lokur highlights the constitutional and legal challenges with the new laws.

Justice Mukta Guptahas been speaking on these laws all over the country, also at the IAS Academy.

 Who will answer the questions? https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/p-chidambaram-writes-who-will-answer-the-questions-9451830/  Is not the claim that the government has thrown out the ‘colonial legacy’ a hollow claim?

why was the time-honoured practice to make a reference to the Law Commission not followed?

Have the new laws recognised and incorporated the progressive principles laid down by the Supreme Court in landmark judgments delivered in the last 10 years?

Why has the new law retained ‘death penalty’ that has been abolished in many democratic countries? Why has the cruel and dehumanising punishment of ‘solitary confinement’ been introduced? Why has the offence of ‘adultery’ been brought back into the criminal law? Was it necessary to retain ‘defamation’ as a criminal offence? Was it not necessary to stipulate a period of limitation to lodge a criminal complaint of ‘defamation’? Why is same-sex relationship without the consent of the other person no longer an offence? Was it not necessary to define the punishment of ‘community

Why has the offence of ‘sedition’ been enlarged and retained?

Have the new laws given greater latitude to the police to arrest a person and seek the person’s police custody?

Is the provision that enables an FIR to be registered in any police station of the country, irrespective of the place of the offence, constitutional?

Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill repressive, allows misuse: Civil society https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/maharashtra-special-public-security-bill-repressive-allows-misuse-civil-society/article68400402.ece July 14, 2024
Activists and lawyers have flagged seven sections of the proposed legislation, aimed at fighting Naxalism in the State, saying the Bill has far reaching consequences
At least seven sections of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024 are either vague or bypass courts or give overriding powers to the State machinery, which is far beyond the objective of curbing Naxalism that the ordinance is aimed at, said civil society members.

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Sanjay Sharma of 4 pm says that he has a twiiter account on x, @Editor_SanjayS seems to have a "shadow ban" (ie block a user from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users) If this is confirmed he promises to file a legal notice on whether this is because he keeps questioning the government.

(comment: the statement could be seen as a "subscriber" enhancing appeal. Yet someone who promised to take the matter up should be supported.. i am therefore subscribing, but unfortunately this youtube channel itself does not alow any comments.. )

  https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3q744/where-did-shadow-banning-come-from-trump-republicans-shadowbanned    Since the early days of the web, a “shadow ban” has been a moderation technique used to ban people from forums or message boards without alerting them that they’ve been banned. Typically, this means that a user can continue posting as normal, but their posts will be hidden from the rest of the community...Twitter also had a bug (since fixed!!)that caused some accounts to not be auto-suggested in search results even when people were searching for their names.
The Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
The idea that Silicon Valley giants use shadow banning to silence conservatives was popularized by far right publications over the last two years... Today, platforms like Twitter have to moderate millions of people—billions, in Facebook's case. Because of this scale, content moderation is significantly different. Moderators are rarely members of the communities they’re moderating and are instead people who are paid to action content that is reported by users for violating a platform’s rules or content that is surfaced by algorithms..... In the case of Holocaust denial for example, Facebook will sometimes “significantly reduce the distribution of content" rather than outright ban it.

in 2018, the special rapporteur to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council issued a 20-page report ( https://freedex.org/a-human-rights-approach-to-platform-content-regulation/  ) noting that social media companies “must embark on radically different approaches to transparency at all stages of their operations, from rule-making to implementation and development of “case law” framing the interpretation of private rules.”

Has the Lavish Ambani Wedding Revealed the Rot in India's Politics and Economy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHyYv14BzU The Wire 13 Jul 2024
अंबानी की बेटे की शादी में पैसे की ताकत के सामने नेताओं के नतमस्तक होने का नजारा देखा है। राजीनिति के मुकाबले पैसे की ताकत का नजारा दिखा है। तो इस वीडियो में अंबानी की बेटे की शादी में खर्च किए गए बंपर पैसे की नजर से भारत की राजनीति और अर्थनीति की कमजोरी पर बात की गई है।

Critics trolled..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGW6qRoj7w Neha Rathore On Ambani Wedding: Neha Rathore ने अंबानी की शादी पर कसा तंज, कही ये बात

Neha Rathore On Ambani Wedding: Neha Rathore ने अंबानी की शादी पर कसा तंज, कही ये बात https://www.jansatta.com/videos/entertainment-video/neha-singh-rathore-on-anant-ambani-and-radhika-merchant-wedding-abhishek-malhan/3470150/

नेहा सिंह राठौर ने अनंत-राधिका की शादी पर किया ट्वीट ..सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट एक्स पर ट्वीट करते हुए नेहा सिंह राठौर ने लिखा है: ”अंबानी के लड़के की शादी देश की ख़स्ताहाल इकॉनमी को छुपाने का उत्सव है। मध्यवर्ग को उलझाए रखने का इससे बेहतर इंतज़ाम हो ही नहीं हो सकता।” (google translate) Neha Singh Rathore tweeted on Anant-Radhika's wedding. Tweeting on social media account X, Neha Singh Rathore wrote: "Ambani's son's wedding is a celebration to hide the country's deteriorating economy. There can be no better way to keep the middle class busy."

https://x.com/nehafolksinger/status/1763881057265545474
Neha Singh Rathore @nehafolksinger मालिक की शादी में मीडिया दीवाना.

Ambani की शादी में पहुंचे Modi, Rahul Gandhi का बयान भयंकर वायरल | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrOl5cwxc9o Anant Ambani Wedding Kumkum Binwal

The Villages That Were Submerged Due to PM Modi’s Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYysHwsCSs0 The Wire 13 Jul 2024
Medha Patkar talks about the forty years of her struggle, the lives of the displaced people, the falsehood of compensation, and how a few Gujarat companies gained more from the Sardar Sarovar project.