Alpha Centauri

A Movie buff, TV series addict, humanist. RTs are just RT. Likes used to be bookmarks.

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

@AdvisorLaborLaw Louis Philippe

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

@ravihanda No @ravisaraogi and @pattufreefincal were harmed in this post :D
I like Pattu sir's advice here - No one knows for sure what future holds for you so hope for the best and plan for the worst. https://t.co/vkkCy8TeAs

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

@misskaul Watch this - https://t.co/BVTyMgo5za

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

If BJP doesn't win Bengal from here, it never will. Election commission has done everything it could.

The top 10 assembly constituencies in West Bengal where voters are deleted from the electoral rolls after the adjudication process are from the Muslim-dominated border districts of Murshidabad and Malda.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Govt wants control over community notes on X, so that they can remove "content that corrects official claims."

Basically, in India the truth should be whatever the govt wants it to be.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

I want to clarify something about this article @apar1984 and I wrote:

An infrastructure for mass censorship is already in place, in India, and the new rules expand it.

We're seeing mass censorship of accounts and posts on X, Instagram and Facebook, because of this infrastructure. This infrastructure:

1. Operates with speed:
- blocking of posts has to be executed in 3 hours (govt is considering 1 hour), which means there's no scope for challenging them. This is the shortest takedown timeline in the world. Every order is an emergency order.
- When platforms get 100 at a time, which happens, they act first, think never, and censor always.

Impact: If someone was censored and can't understand why, this is why. No one has time to think.

2. Scale...Scope has expanded uncontested:
- The reasons for which speech and posts can be taken down keeps expanding.
New rules expand government powers to tweets like this one.
- News websites and platforms are covered under IT Rules (illegally)
- Streaming platforms are covered under the IT Rules (illegally)

Impact: more types of speech is already being censored...satire, journalism, or political criticism

3. Operates without challenge, in two ways:
- When you get 160 takedown orders a day (as X disclosed to a court) how many will you challenge?
- Platforms don't want to react because they can lose market access in India. They're faced with unrelenting pressure from regulators, and basically choosing which hill to die on. Us being censored is not their problem.
- Rules are changing frequently: 7 amendments to IT Rules since Feb 2021. By the time courts nullify one rule (and they don't always do this), new rules come up.

How often will people go to court?

4. Ordering takedowns has been decentralised:
- The (illegal) Sahyog portal, which is used for takedowns, is a hotline from government bodies to platforms. Thirty-three states, seven central agencies, and seventy-two companies are onboarded.

5. There is no transparency hence no accountability:
- Users receive no notice. censorship orders are not provided on request.
- blocking orders and the meetings of the committee that reviews them are protected by secrecy.
- RTI's are not responded to.
- Consultation responses are not public.

6. Government is seeking personal data of social media users using Sections 70B, 69 and 75 of the IT Act. This will lead to self censorship.

7. Lawmaking process has collapsed:
- The new IT Rules consultations have a 15 day deadline.
- Implementation timeline for the last one was 10 days.
- Rules are being made where there used to be laws government by Parliament. The new rules mirror provisions from the Broadcast Bill which was withdrawn in 2024. Parliament is being bypassed.

As we wrote: when the IT Secretary reportedly says that platforms should have started preparing to implement based on consultation drafts, it appears that outcomes are predetermined. Consultations appear to be a farce.

MEITY, DoT and MIB are not accountable to anyone but the government for rules that are not in line with laws, and go against a key free speech verdict we got in 2015.

That's why this is an infrastructure for censorship. It is in place, it is operational, and it is expanding. This is not just about the new rules.

This is why we're sounding the alarm about: people need to know what is going on, and the Supreme Court needs to take this up. They are the court of last resort, meant to preserve constitutionality.

P.s: Please keep a copy of this tweet, in case it gets censored. Or just tweet it and tag us... how many will they censor?

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

@ActusDei https://t.co/Qd0lPduJjz

[BasuNivesh Fee Only Financial Planners @BasuNivesh]

The April 1–5 Trap: Your Biggest PPF & SSY Mistake Every Year

Every April, lakhs of investors rush to dump Rs.1.5 lakh into PPF and SSY between the 1st and 5th, believing they’ve made a “smart” financial move. Let’s be clear—these are excellent products, but they are debt instruments, not wealth creators. Treating them as the backbone of long-term goals is a costly mistake. Inflation doesn’t care about your discipline or tax-saving intent—it silently erodes your returns. If your long-term plan is dominated by debt and starved of equity, you’re not being safe… you’re being short-sighted.

What’s worse? Many park money in low-return RDs just to fund next year’s PPF/SSY contribution—compounding inefficiency with taxation drag. It’s financial planning gone wrong. Instead of blindly maxing out limits, first fix your asset allocation—decide how much should be in equity vs debt based on your goals. Use PPF and SSY only for the debt portion, not as default investments. And if you’re investing monthly, do it directly into these schemes instead of taking a detour through RDs. Discipline is good—but blind discipline without strategy is dangerous.

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

@zoo_bear Done!!

[TRT World @trtworld]

Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions
https://t.co/v0be37LwpV

[David Roth-Lindberg @RothLindberg]

How the heck did the US get away with the worst mass slaughter of school children in history, without the whole world condemning them?

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

So Under @narendramodi and @AshwiniVaishnaw , Criticising Modi and BJP is now officially banned in India. ⚠️

They are mindlessly and senselessly withholding accounts in India who are critical of the gov.

Blatant assault on India’s constitutional right of Freedom of Speech Article 19 (1)(A) , and all the courts are sleeping.

This is being done smartly before elections to stop any Anti BJP content from spreading.

Also a message to Sanghis who are rejoicing at this, time is powerful, your masters won’t be in power forever.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

you will find Israeli fingerprints in every moment of human horror, mass murder, or mass theft. name any single modern instance of genocide, civil war, assassination, coups, corporate domination—Israeli fomentation, weapons, training, and theft will feature prominently if you scratch the surface.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Fixed it for you @Reuters.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ New at @DropSiteNews: Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike

As Ramadan comes to a close, families in Minab, Iran struggle to come to terms with the scale of death, one of the deadliest single attacks on children in memory.

Story by Mahmoud Aslan

https://t.co/b7kgaDxJ1E

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

Joker hi bana diya hai insta walon ne toh 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/m3kUVFO5ZM

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

14 Muslim men have been arrested in Varanasi for having an iftar on boat

The FIR was registered based on the complaint of the BJP Youth leader for hurting religious sentiments.

These sentiments of these BJPs mf doesn't get hurt when
- Industry dumps waste in Ganga.
- When people shit in Ganga
- when they dispose of Idol
- or even dead bodies & arthi ashes

Their sentiment only hurts it Muslim people who eat on a boat

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Dr. Kakodkar isn’t just warning as a scientist. He designed India’s nuclear roadmap. When he says abandoning thorium is “suicidal,” he’s watching 60 years of public investment get quietly buried.

Here’s what the news won’t connect for you: 👇

→ India holds 25% of the world’s thorium reserves; the largest share of any democracy

→ Our own thorium reactor (AHWR) has been stuck on a drawing board for 20 straight years

→ China has already built and tested the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor

→ We’re still “planning”

Now watch the timeline:

Nov 2025: Adani Group announces nuclear sector ambitions

Dec 2025: Modi govt “bulldozes” the SHANTI Act through Parliament in days, opens nuclear to private players, caps liability, allows 49% foreign investment

Feb 2026: Adani Atomic Energy Limited is born, targeting 30 GW

And instead of developing indigenous thorium capability through our own DAE scientists, NTPC signs a deal with a US firm (CCTE) to import thorium fuel technology; for reactors sitting right on top of India’s own thorium.

Read that again.

We have the world’s thorium. We couldn’t build our own reactor in 20 years. But we passed a law in 3 days to open the sector to a crony.
This isn’t policy failure. This is policy design.

Kakodkar is a patriot shouting into a void. The government isn’t abandoning thorium out of neglect; it’s abandoning Indian ownership of thorium, on purpose.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces gunned down 2 Palestinian parents and their 2 kids in the occupied West Bank after a family day out.

Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, and his 35-year-old wife Waad, had taken their family on a day out and were driving through the village of Tammun when they were killed.

Israeli forces then dragged out the 2 remaining injured kids and beat them.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. https://t.co/88FIdIJOQi

[Alpha Centauri @Akh026]

Ye naya hindustan hai. Yaha ........

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

You won’t be the same after hearing this news but had to be shared regardless.

In Bihar, a speech impaired kid was watching the final match. India lost a wicket, he started shouting out of confusion, ppl thought he was celebrating India’s wicket.

They beat him to death 💔