Current Events > India wants all references of an India covid variant removed from social media

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57213046

India's government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the "Indian variant" of Covid-19. The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to "Indian" was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the UK and Brazil. India's government has faced criticism over its handling of Covid-19. The country has been hit hard by the new variant since late March and is now second only to the US in terms of overall infections, at more than 26 million, according to Johns Hopkins University research. Covid-related deaths are close to 300,000, behind only the US and Brazil, although some experts believe India's fatalities could be considerably higher.

The instruction to social media companies was carried in a government order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday. Platforms were asked to "remove all the content that names, refers to, or implies 'Indian variant' of coronavirus from your platform immediately", the Press Trust of India reported. "It has come to our knowledge that a false statement is being circulated online which implies that an 'Indian variant' of coronavirus is spreading across the countries. This is completely FALSE," AFP news agency quoted the same letter as saying. The note says that the WHO has "not associated the term 'Indian variant' with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports". One social media executive told Reuters it would be extremely difficult to take down all references to "Indian variant". B.1.617, a more transmissible variant, was first detected in India last year and has spread to dozens of countries. A number of nations have severely restricted arrivals from India.

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Good luck dicks

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India government trying to be China not realizing you need totalitarian rule and downright hurting your citizens to maintain the coverup that CCP was able to maintain on its citizens/rest of the world.
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Well that's straight China. I tolerate a lot of stupidity, probably more than is healthy, but actively saying "you're not allowed to know that; everything is fine here, stop ruining it" to your populace is pure totalitarianism.

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Everytime I read something about India, its never good, smh

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