*New GOP Majority Aims to Give Away Public Lands & Further Enable Big Oil's Price Gouging.*

Modi's government has banned a BBC documentary about Modi's connections with the 2002 sectarian pogrom in Gujarat, when Modi was the head of that state's government.

I read articles about this at the time.

The Hindu-nationalist right-wing in India has made it a strategy for decades to stir up violence between Hindus and Muslims, just as the American right-wing has done (with more success since 2001).

Parts of Australia make it a crime to publicly express certain ideas.

I think the world would be a better place if it did not contain Nazism. Also if it did not contain hatred against religions, or religions for that matter.

However, censorship can threaten any idea, and can oppress everyone. Once one idea is censored, censorship tends to spread to ban other ideas as well.

Since the rich tend to control governments, they are likely to turn the gun of censorship on opposition to the power of the rich.

GUber has bullied and seduced its way to eliminate protections for workers' rights in several African countries, shifting governments toward neoliberalism and allowing businesses (including foreign businesses) to exploit as they wish.

New York State has adopted a right-to-repair law, though Governor Hochul imposed limits on the products it applies to.

Even for those products, the law is only a step towards giving users control over the devices they "own". The law won't stop manufacturers from designing devices so that they control what users can do with them and restrict what users can change.