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"An American academic warned me that they couldn’t speak openly about India out of concern for family. An American think tank expert described numerous examples of censorship and self-censorship at prominent US institutions."
“Everyone is absolutely terrified”: Inside a US ally’s secret war on its American criticswww.vox.com A foreign government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn — and it's succeeding.
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This is awful, and I suspect there are a few more US allies who do similar things. This ought to be a focus of serious pressure diplomacy or otherwise cost regimes who do this.
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I would imagine the Saudis are pretty deep into this kinda stuff
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Definitely one of the other countries where there’s some evidence.
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At one of my previous employers I worked with one of the big Indian IT outsourcing firms: The amount of increased infighting due to the party political polarization was insane.
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It changed markedly during the 2019 reelection campaign of Modi and never went back down.
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And it wasn't just a plot, they've killed at least one Canadian.