A BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been banned. This is why social media giants Twitter and YouTube have been forced to remove links from their sites.
It has also used emergency powers to force Twitter and YouTube to remove footage from their sitesElectricity was allegedly cut to universities and Twitter links censored as part of a ban on a BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Links to the documentary on around 50 Twitter accounts were removed, as well as on an unspecified number of YouTube channels, the Guardian reported. Police detain an activist outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, January 25, 2023.Defiant Indian students were also detained for creating a disturbance ahead of a planned screening of the British broadcaster's documentary at Jamia Millia Islamia - a majority-Muslim university in New Delhi. University officials later said no film screenings were allowed without its permission.
The BBC cited a previously classified British foreign ministry report quoting unnamed sources saying Modi met senior police officers and "ordered them not to intervene" in the anti-Muslim violence.
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