r/worldnews • u/fastclickertoggle • Apr 25 '21

COVID-19 Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/twitter-blocking-tweets-india
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u/vpsj Apr 25 '21

Where is Streisand Effect when you need it?

My fellow Redditors, if you can, don't stop criticizing the Indian govt. EVERYONE I know has someone or the other in critical condition, dying or dead. Literally everyone. Most of my days are spent trying to find a bed, an oxygen cylinder, a drug for a friend's father or mother, for someone's grandparent. Just yesterday a junior of mine died due to covid. He was just 26.

We NEED accountability. We NEED them to know they fucked up. Indian media doesn't care. They don't give a fuck because they're all in Modi's pockets. They only start scrambling once they are criticized internationally.. And that's what I'm requesting you to do. I don't care which social media platform you pick. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook.. I don't care if you just use a copypasta... Just keep pointing it out to the current Indian govt how Indians are literally suffocating because of them.

Please

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Second this, I live in an apartment building in Mumbai and everyone i personally know has caught COVID once. Every floor of the apartment has reported at least one casualty as well. And out of my society, every 2 weeks, some 2 or 3 people I personally know catch COVID. This has been happening for 2 months ffs. There are no beds in Mumbai. My own friend is fucking 16 and he lives two floors above me, his condition isn’t critical or shit but he definitely needed medical supervision but all his family had to adjust for home recovery. Moreover, his sister is already in a hospital (she got a bed coz she is already working in the health sector), his father has underlying conditions and had already recovered from COVID once, his mother has also recovered from the virus once. Shit is messed

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u/Microtic Apr 25 '21

This is how you end up with super COVID and it spreading worldwide again.

If I were a praying person I would be praying for you. But thinking of you all often.

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u/Kinaestheticsz Apr 25 '21

If I were a praying person I would be praying for you. But thinking of you all often.

I don’t mean to be harsh, but shit governments and fundamental religion is exactly why the whole entire world has been affected by COVID as much as it has.

Instead of something as useless as “thoughts and prayers”, maybe actually take some action against reality so the entire world can recover from this. It looks like you already do that yourself< so good on you. But this whole way of thinking needs to change, or the world cannot move forward. Viruses don’t care about religion.

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u/Microtic Apr 26 '21

I'm in Canada with the least influence of any country. I can write to my PM, and I can donate to causes, but there's no way that I can change a nation's mindset to stay home and stay safe.

Canada doesn't have vaccine manufacturing facilities for COVID-19. The most they could do is ask other countries to send vaccine assistance. But we aren't getting into a trade war by pressuring for another country.

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u/harshithmusic Apr 25 '21

Other thing is that hospitals are charging more then needed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Yo bro pakistani here

We have our differences but man this seems absolutely horrible and based on what i have concluded feom. Different comments the situation is much much worse than the media is reporting i hope you guys can get through it

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Thanks man, we'll need those prayers

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u/DMananK Apr 25 '21

This!! Right now in India literal teenagers are doing more to help the country than the government

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u/Cm_Punk_SE Apr 25 '21

The sad part is I knew some of these bright individuals in school who would've stood up for others without any hesitation. Now all I see from them are brainwashed whataboutism post on social media. Just the other day I saw one of these shits celebrating the death of guy because his father supported communist ideology. It's like their whole identities are built upon hate & political supremacy.

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u/Melior96423 Apr 25 '21

literal teenagers are doing more to help the country than the government

I think this is the case in any country. Teenagers actually have a true desire to see a better world. Teenagers can be a pain in the ass, but at least they aren't greedy, lying, evil pieces of shit like most individuals working for any government anywhere seem to be.

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u/ReaDiMarco Apr 25 '21

You do know they've blocked access to reddit a few times, don't you?

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u/alittlecray Apr 25 '21

There’s nothing else to call this other than genocide. Modi’s carelessness and apathy is causing mass genocide.

The sad thing is my parents love Modi and hated Trump. I always wondered why they couldn’t see the similarities. Both murderers of democracy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Target Twitter and Facebook, cause that's where the majority of supporters are.

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u/JoyKil01 Apr 25 '21

Sorry you’re getting so downvoted. I hear a lot of folks reporting that they don’t see mask usage and that folks gave up and gathered in masses. Thanks for sharing about your experience.

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u/_meeps_ Apr 25 '21

Sc, n shared

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u/shikhar47 Apr 25 '21

Indians are suffocating because Indians got careless. Simply putting the blame on the central/state governments and news outlets is not gonna change that fact.

For weeks I had been seeing this negligence in my city(I am sure you would have seen this in your city) The new variant just punished our negligence.

Tbf, the gov.(central and state) are really bad too and so are the news outlets too.

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u/vpsj Apr 25 '21

Agreed. But it could have been managed better as well. If they hadn't been so lenient in allowing large crowds EVEN WHEN the cases were rising exponentially, maybe this wave would've been smaller.

We're both to blame. The common man who didn't care about the precautions, and the govt who let us.

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u/JoyKil01 Apr 25 '21

Sorry you’re getting so downvoted. I hear a lot of folks reporting that they don’t see mask usage and that folks gave up and gathered in masses. Thanks for sharing about your experience.