YouTube and Twitter are blocking links and videos sharing a BBC documentary in India about its prime minister
of having a"colonial mindset," and said the documentary was"undermining the sovereignty and integrity of India."
A YouTube spokesperson told Insider in a statement that,"The video in question has been blocked from appearing by the BBC due to a copyright claim." A spokesperson for the BBC said it"has not asked Twitter to remove any content relating to the documentary. As is our standard practice, we issue Takedown Notices to websites and other file sharing platforms where the content infringes the BBC's copyright." The documentary has been broadcast only in the UK on the BBC's video on-demand service.
The spokesperson said the documentary"examines the tensions between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority and explores the politics of India's PM Narendra Modi in relation to those tensions." "The documentary was rigorously researched according to highest editorial standards. A wide range of voices, witnesses and experts were approached, and we have featured a range of opinions – this includes responses from people in the BJP. We offered the Indian Government a right to reply to the matters raised in the series – it declined to respond," the spokesperson said.Two Parliamentary members of the opposition party All India Trinamool Congress, shared links to the documentary.
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