Governments should be barred by law from discriminating against those contractors, firms, media outlets, etc., which are critical of the government or expose its wrongdoings [COMPACTIDEA]

Centre freezes advertisements to the Times Group, ABP Group and The Hindu: Report

https://scroll.in/latest/928790/centre-freezes-advertisements-to-the-times-group-abp-group-and-the-hindu-report

Modi government freezes ads placed in three Indian newspaper groups

https://in.reuters.com/article/india-media/modi-government-freezes-ads-placed-in-three-indian-newspaper-groups-idINKCN1TT1R6

It should be illegal for the Indian government, and more generally for any government, to use budget spending or other government spending as a weapon or as a punishment to harm or control those companies, NGOs, newspapers, people, etc., which hold the government or its constituent politicians to account, including by revealing the government's wrongdoings.