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TIL a local news story about a protest got totally scrubbed from the internet in India
My cousin lives in Delhi and told me about a farmer protest that got violent back in February. He said the local papers covered it for one day then nothing, and even the online archives had the articles pulled. I tried searching for it myself using a VPN and could barely find anything from Indian news sites. Has anyone else run into news disappearing like that from other countries?
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lily3601mo agoTop Commenter
Oh I see this totally differently honestly. I live in Mumbai and I've followed farmer protests pretty closely, the ones you are talking about were widely covered for weeks not just one day. I can pull up Hindu, Times of India, and Indian Express articles from February right now on my laptop without any VPN. Maybe your cousin missed the coverage or the articles were moved around during site updates, but scrubbed from the internet entirely? That sounds like a stretch to me. It's more likely the news just stopped being a daily headline once the situation calmed down, which happens everywhere not just in India.
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