Indians Find Ways to Watch Rape Documentary Despite Ban
(New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/world/asia/indias-efforts-to-ban-rape-documentary-spur-greater-interest-online.html?_r=0
"A British-made documentary about a grisly gang rape in India spread
throughout social media on Thursday, gaining a wide audience despite a
government ban and thwarting official efforts to block it. A
spokesman for YouTube in India said Thursday that the company had
agreed to a government request to block the YouTube channels of
multiple users who had uploaded the documentary. The original link
posted by the BBC, however, was still available, he said. By Thursday
evening, the film had been viewed more than 100,000 times from that
one link, a figure that did not include viewings from other sources."
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Every time. Period. Full stop. Q.E.D. Streisand.
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