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Face Book blocks comments against Kerala Marxist Government’s Trivandrum international gold smuggling case association
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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There have been so many allegations against Face Book India during the past years, of showing bias on social and political issues in India, of standing in secret with the Hindu BJP government of India, of spreading and favouring communal hate speech for the Hindu BJP, of suppressing posts and campaigns by the opposition Congress Party, of receiving around ten crore rupees of graft in the form of advertisements from BJP, and of a lot of other things. But in 2020 Face Book was summoned to the Indian Parliament for questioning on some of these biases and partialities, BBC reported their bias and partiality and communal and political orientation in India, and their Asia Chief was put under fire.
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All the allegations, accusations, summonses and interrogations against Face Book India in 2020 from the Indian Parliament to the Delhi State Assembly had dealt with its unholy association with and subjugation to the ruling Hindu BJP Party of India. Now a new allegation is surfacing, that of the privileges and concessions associated with the BJP-FB deal being extended to the Hindu BJP’s new cronies in Kerala against the Indian National Congress- the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its Kerala government, in total negation of the many implications of this party’s and its many leaders’, officers’ and ministers’ presence for questioning in investigations by the four main investigation agencies of India namely the Indian Customs, the National Investigation Agency, the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau in cases registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the Foreign Exchange Money Regulations Act and the National Security Act. The Central Bureau of Investigation is also, it is believed, coming into the picture whereby the Anti Corruption Act will also come into force. In short, it is understood that Face Book India is going to help the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its Kerala government to ride this storm against these four prime investigation agencies of the Government OF India and these three vital Acts of the Republic of India, for a price.
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In 2020, after finding itself exposed and disrobed in association of their senior party leaders, many leaders’ sons and daughters and other family members, many senior principal secretary-level Indian Administrative Service officers, and even some state ministers in government, with the several separate investigations branching out from the main and original one of a case and investigation of several kilos of gold smuggled through diplomatic channel from the UAE to India and destination Kerala and detected in July 2020 at the Trivandrum international airport, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its Kerala government found besides many other things that they are loosing ground support from the people of Kerala, almost all political parties in Kerala are agitating against them in the streets minding not the affliction of corona virus spread, their leaders are summoned one by one by a flotilla of central investigation officers for questioning and their capital institutions are searched, and that their defense campaigns in what they call neo social media are failing. These neo social media they call are neither Linked-In nor Twitter because for one thing their supporters cannot deal in English, and for another, these two more conservative and professional social media institutions won’t tolerate or allow cheap and vulgar political posts. Moreover, Linked-In do not accept political campaign posts and Twitter has definitely stated that it won’t accept and host political posts prior to elections anymore. So this CPI(M) party and their government, when they say neo social media, mean only that it is Face Book. In September 2020 they announced that they are going to hire a consultancy for redesigning their campaigns in the neo social media which when translated into layman’s terms means that they are going to draw immense amounts of public money from the state government treasury and going to pay those huge amounts to Face Book India to host their newly designed and revamped political posts and demand Face Book to suppress or block whatever posts or comments of political criticism are made against them, before they are to face people’s mandate in not one but two statewide and their political future-deciding critical elections in Kerala soon- the local body elections in 2020 and the state assembly elections in 2021. Do not anyone expect that an inauguration date will be announced in a public function for this clandestine deal; it has already been set in motion and posts and comments criticizing this Communist Marxist Party of Kerala and its rocking government are already begun to be blocked.
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Without content no media can exist. In print, electronic and digital media the management produces the content, advertisers finance a (considerable) part of the expenses for running the media and gaining a profit, the media targets that content and those advertisements at an audience, the audience- that is the readers- also contributes to the revenue by way of subscriptions. In social media the management does not produce the content- it is the members who produce the content. Because there are members and there is content produced by those members, the advertisers get in, pay the management for advertising and the advertisements reach the audience alongside members’ content. So, if there are no members and any content produced by those members, no advertisers will ever go to a social media for advertising and giving money. Face Book survives through long standing members and the quantity and the quality of the content produced by those members. The emphasis is always on the quantity and the quality of that content because when they become scant and inferior, nothing will be there to attract members to that media and also hold them there. Many a social media platform has folded under such circumstances- that is, when there are only members and no quality content. Face Book does not give member-content creators remunerations for contributing content. So it’s free- a gift to Face Book from its members. If Face Book sacrifices a content-writing member, or his or her content, and obeys the demands and instructions of their advertisement revenue-giver, then it is its end. It is any social media’s end.
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What about paying readers to produce additional content even while the management produces theirs? Some bold electronic media are doing this. The Times of India owned by the Times Group of the Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited does this and provides readers points and star-levels to write comments ranging from one word to Three thousand characters on news articles they publish. They do not pay their content-writing readers money but pay in kind. These readers’ points could be redeemed later from their accounts as commercial articles and goods of the writers’ choosing from the media's catalogue, which would be delivered to their homes even without collecting courier charges. The benefit is the reader/writer- actually a member of that media- gets an incentive and motivation for writing, the media gets additional content, and the comment being proof that the article has been read and apreciated the advertiser gets satisfied and puts in more money. This is the case with professional media content management groups. The meaning is, Face Book cannot go on indefinitely without paying writers money or in kind even while generating money out of their content. Face Book does not generate content by itself anyway.
Written and first published on: 22 September 2020
Ref: (Media news just within two months)
1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/allegations-against-facebook-alarming-says-digital-advocacy-group/articleshow/77603715.cms
2. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/facebook-india-grilled-hate-speech-alleged-bias-72769758
3. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47797151
4. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910
5. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53803256
6. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53995717
7. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/antitrust-allegations-against-facebooks-whatsapp-in-india/articleshow/75769504.cms
Tags:
Communist Party Of India (Marxist) Kerala, Face Book India, India Kerala Politics, Indian Investigation Agencies, International Gold Smuggling Cases, Suppression Of Freedom Of Expression,
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