Inspired by this tweet, I'm going to list out a few issues that should have gotten relentless massive coverage, Gormint should have been questioned constantly, but seem to have died down.
Or maybe we just got distracted too fast?
Here we go...
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The entire country's budget was passed in 36 minutes without discussion.
Everyone should have collectively lost their minds but, after a short burst of outrage, we swallowed it up whole as if it's normal.
There's something strange going down at the SC Aadhaar hearings.
From what it seems, the Gormint is not being able to provide reasonable answers to the questions asked.
This crucial hearing is now just lost in the noise somewhere. #Thread
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Electoral Bonds are now available for sale!
It's the most non-transparent draconian farce in electoral funding EVER. Idea is to keep citizens in the dark while parties are bought & sold by corporates.
#PNBscam keeps getting bigger. Now, it seems like even the RBI was lax keeping a watch on this!
Can't even imagine what else the central bank turned a blind eye to.
3 Partial read downs in favor of Government.
1 in favor of Government.
1 Ultra dissent
Sigh.
This is good though. It means the Supreme Court has acknowledged that not all is well in Aadhaar land.
There were some major problems which have been rectified.
The biggest one is disallowing private companies to use Aadhaar data. Now all those techies who were supporting Aadhaar will slowly dwindle out. We'll be left only with the Govt in power defending the program.
If there's no profit there, why bother, eh? Waste of time.
You're still wondering why it's important to create a hue and cry about the Huffpost story?
Think about this scenario: A 100 folks from say, China, sitting in one room and creating Aadhaar after Aadhaar using a patched software which has geo-location disabled.
Every single day.
This is an actual national security issue of gigantic proportions. Mind is reeling thinking about possibilities of how this can be misused.
For all you know, terrorists in sleeper cells must have procured Aadhaar numbers and are living amongst us. Totally Legitimized by Aadhaar.
For a change all the chest-beating nationalists should be pouncing on this story and questioning the Government & UIDAI.
Where are you nationalists?
The country is being threatened!
For real!
A patch that allows operators to create multiple Aadhaar numbers bypassing biometric security features has been found. Who knows how many fake IDs were created using this.
This is a consequence of allowing random enrollment operators to create IDs, driven by per-enrollment incentives. They found a hack to maximize profits by creating multiple IDs.
This means that corruption in service delivery is still happening. Aadhaar is a total failwhale!
Whats worse, given this Government's epic push to make Aadhaar mandatory and legitimize it, this leakage and corruption of services has been LEGITIMIZED.
Now we know what UIDAI cancelled licenses of 39000 enrollment ops. They're now holding secret camps to fix these entries.
If the Congress did Demonetisation and we were in 2013, the media would be calling it the biggest scam ever done by a political party.
A 15 lakh crore scam.
People would be out on streets, Anna Hazare would be going crazy. Sibal would be giving Zero Loss theories, trying to justify their move. Ramdev would be screaming about black money.
Wait... we've seen this happen somewhere before, haven't we?
Maybe it's just my imagination.
It won't happen now because nobody trusts the media anymore. BJP has ensured nobody believes anything in the news.
The media house owners are still happy because they get to bank on a pro-Government nationalist sentiment to sell ads. They don't lose anything.