Opportunists Are Spinning The BBC’s Scandal To Mudsling Against India & Elon Musk

India cannot allow pernicious information warfare products to freely proliferate across its society and thus risk manipulating the perceptions of targeted elements within for the Hybrid War end of provoking communal violence, ergo its decision to block the BBC’s “documentary” within its borders. Likewise, Musk cannot remain true to his socially conscious vision and complementary desire to restore balance to online debate by not complying with this reasonable request and thus risking an outbreak of violence.

“The BBC Is Abusing Freedom Of The Press To Wage Hybrid Warfare On India” after airing an incendiary “documentary” about events over two decades ago for the tacit purpose of provoking communal conflict. This information warfare campaign is intended to punish that globally significant Great Power for its astronomical rise in international affairs over the past year as well as its continued commitment to retain strategic ties with Russia despite unprecedented Western pressure to unilaterally cut them off.

Accordingly, it made perfect sense from the perspective of Delhi’s “Democratic Security” – which refers to the wide range of tactics and strategies for counteracting externally exacerbated internal threats to a country’s national model of democracy – to order social media to block that “documentary” inside India. Twitter, whose new owner Elon Musk previously confirmed that it’ll abide by the legislation of each country in which it operates, complied with this request from the world’s most populous country.

That in turn prompted opportunists to spin the BBC’s scandal in such a way that they can once again mudsling against that billionaire, who they already despise for exposing the US Government’s censorship of his tech platform and not blindly parroting its rhetoric about the Ukrainian Conflict. Their weaponized narrative is that this well-known free speech absolutist is therefore nothing more than a self-interested hypocrite whose company suppresses free speech for financial convenience.

After all, they imply, he could have refused to comply with the Indian government’s request out of principle and thus put his money where his mouth is by risking having Twitter outright banned as a result in the world’s most populous country (and thus market) in order to make a stand for his beliefs. The reality is that everything isn’t as simple as they’re spinning it since Musk has reminded everyone on many occasions that he’s also very socially conscious and believes in restoring balance to online debate.

With that in mind, Twitter’s compliance with the Indian government’s request shouldn’t be spun as so-called “censorship” since it’s veritably the case that the BBC’s “documentary” was a Hybrid War weapon aimed at provoking communal conflict within that country for the reasons elaborated upon in the analysis hyperlinked in the present piece’s first sentence. This means that Twitter is actually conforming with Musk’s socially conscious vision and helping to retain balance amidst debates over sensitive issues.

Nevertheless, the mudslinging campaign against both India and Musk continues unabated, and it’s being driven by the desire of the US-led West’s Mainstream Media (MSM) to make an example of them. Regarding India, they want to smear its credentials as the world’s largest democracy simultaneously with fearmongering that its demographic composition makes large-scale destabilization inevitable. As for Musk, they fervently hate him for defying their liberal-globalist dogma.

The BBC’s scandal therefore presents the perfect opportunity for the MSM to attack both of them at the same time. The artificially manufactured “censorship” narrative is being weaponized to impugn their respective support of free speech, thought the reality is that this very concept itself and prevailing notions about it within the US-led West’s Golden Billion was never what the MSM’s perception managers portrayed it as being.

Instead of being “absolute”, it’s always been limited within their de facto New Cold War bloc, with the most popularly known example over the past year being their censorship of publicly financed Russian international media. The US and its vassals didn’t just make one episode of a single program unavailable for their audience, but either made it impossible for those platforms themselves to operate or directly forced them to close. They’re thus not in a position to lecture India or Musk on free speech.

The whole point in going on the warpath against those two is to score cheap political points at the expense of their reputations, all with the intent of misleading their targeted Western audience into thinking that their leaders are more noble defenders of free speech than India or Musk are. That’s obviously not the case as was just explained in the preceding paragraph, but that false narrative is being so aggressively pushed at this time out of desperation to have the population rally around their leaders.

The New Cold War between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the jointly BRICS- & SCO-led Global South of which India is a part (though it does its utmost to pragmatically balance between both de facto blocs in pursuit of apolitical and economically driven mutual benefits) is being framed by the former as inherently ideological. Their perception managers claim that it’s about defending their so-called “values”, though it’s really about determining the outcome of the global systemic transition.

The Golden Billion wants to retain the trappings of unipolarity as long as possible with only the bare minimum of reforms while the Global South wants International Relations to gradually become more democratic, equal, just, and thus predictable. The first-mentioned is weaponizing literally everything in pursuit of its hegemonic goal, including the concept of free speech and prevailing notions thereof, while the second is robustly defending itself from these schemes via various “Democratic Security” means.

India cannot allow pernicious information warfare products to freely proliferate across its society and thus risk manipulating the perceptions of targeted elements within for the Hybrid War end of provoking communal violence, ergo its decision to block the BBC’s “documentary” within its borders. Likewise, Musk cannot remain true to his socially conscious vision and complementary desire to restore balance to online debate by not complying with this reasonable request and thus risking an outbreak of violence.

The MSM is therefore gaslighting its targeted audience by either completely ignoring these credible concerns from both or falsely claiming that they amount to so-called “censorship” and thus supposedly expose both as hypocrites when it comes to their support of free speech. This latest narrative trend thus confirms that the information warfare campaign that began against India with the BBC’s “documentary” has now evolved into an information warfare campaign against the minds of average Westerners.