Hypocrisy on free speech

March 16, 2016 13:51

A valid argument can be made about the Indian establishment's instinctive use and misuse of colonial era laws like sedition, but not if it is partisan. For it is disingenuous to claim, as some have, that somehow it is only now that the government is clamping down on free speech. Have we forgotten so quickly the 2012 arrests of a cartoonist for sedition and college students for `offensive' social media posts? Read more

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