Domestic and international media operating in India – to say nothing of activist groups, both those that are purely indigenous as well as those with international connections via “NGOs” and other means – have a much greater responsibility with their reporting than their Western counterparts do. The inordinately greater multitude of preexisting socio-political (“soft security”) fault lines there due to that cosmopolitan millennia-old civilization-state’s unique national conditions means that irresponsible and reckless reporting can be dangerous.
India could learn a great deal by China’s example of how to manage and defend its domestic information space. China recognized early that the internet and foreign NGOs were a vector by which malign actors could destabilize the State so it moved to secure its information space accordingly.
India could learn a great deal by China’s example of how to manage and defend its domestic information space. China recognized early that the internet and foreign NGOs were a vector by which malign actors could destabilize the State so it moved to secure its information space accordingly.