{"id":1203,"date":"2021-04-17T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T14:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/tech-giants-happy-to-do-narendra-modis-bidding-in-return-for-access-to-indian-market-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T14:04:35","slug":"tech-giants-happy-to-do-narendra-modis-bidding-in-return-for-access-to-indian-market-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/tech-giants-happy-to-do-narendra-modis-bidding-in-return-for-access-to-indian-market-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants happy to do Narendra Modi\u2019s bidding in return for access to Indian market | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian leader\u2019s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter<\/p>\n

For decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power \u2013 the hallmarks of a functioning democracy \u2013 albeit with the flaws inherent in such a system, including a single dominant party \u2013 the Congress party. And then, in May 2014, Narendra Modi, leader of the BJP, was elected<\/a>, swept to power on a standard-issue neoliberal platform of modernisation, privatisation and liberalisation of the economy, slashing welfare budgets, lowering corporate taxes, abolishing wealth taxes, etc.<\/p>\n

Modi\u2019s election, wrote the august journal Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>, marked a critical milestone in his country\u2019s development. He was \u201cthe first leader since independence to command a lower-house parliamentary majority that did not belong to the Congress party of India\u2019s founders Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. After 65 years, a dynastic founding party was subsumed by new blood.\u201d But in the six years since his first election (he was re-elected in 2019), the journal continued, \u201cit has become clear that his style of leadership poses an existential threat to the world\u2019s largest democracy. Through his wildly successful promotion of Hindutva ideology, Modi is poised to remake India into a Russian-style \u2018managed democracy\u2019 \u2013 one retaining all the trappings of democracy while operating as a de facto autocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe Indian leader\u2019s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter
\nFor decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power \u2013 the hallmarks of a functioning democracy \u2013 albeit with the flaws inherent in such a system, including a single dominant party \u2013 the Congress party. And then, in May 2014, Narendra Modi, leader of the BJP, was elected, swept to power on a standard-issue neoliberal platform of modernisation, privatisation and liberalisation of the economy, slashing welfare budgets, lowering corporate taxes, abolishing wealth taxes, etc.
\nModi\u2019s election, wrote the august journal Foreign Policy, marked a critical milestone in his country\u2019s development. He was \u201cthe first leader since independence to command a lower-house parliamentary majority that did not belong to the Congress party of India\u2019s founders Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. After 65 years, a dynastic founding party was subsumed by new blood.\u201d But in the six years since his first election (he was re-elected in 2019), the journal continued, \u201cit has become clear that his style of leadership poses an existential threat to the world\u2019s largest democracy. Through his wildly successful promotion of Hindutva ideology, Modi is poised to remake India into a Russian-style \u2018managed democracy\u2019 \u2013 one retaining all the trappings of democracy while operating as a de facto autocracy.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indian leader\u2019s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter For decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power \u2013 the hallmarks of a functioning democracy \u2013 albeit with the …<\/p>\n

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