TR EMERITUS

Recently, the government invoked POFMA against Brad Bowyer for his post on the Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Smart City, declaring certain aspects as fake and requiring a retraction. The government stated the project company spent only a few million for the project design and not $4 billion as reported. He complied to it, but nonetheless... 

Sigh. The past connects to the present. When it was first passed in 2014, the Protection from Harassment Act (POHA) was sold as being for the protection of vulnerable individuals from harassment. But not only did the Government try to make use of POHA to suppress criticism, the first Government agency to make use of it was... 

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