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How is RT at all comparable to the CIA? Even if you accept the premise that RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service.
by pdog 9y ago
How is RT at all comparable to the CIA? Even if you accept the premise that RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service.
- cycrutchfield 9y agoSo your argument is that a foreign propaganda entity is preferable to a domestic intelligence agency?
- pdog 9y agoYes? I hope it's not controversial to say that doing business with a television network is fundamentally different from cooperating with an intelligence agency.
- cycrutchfield 9y agoKey words here are foreign and domestic.
- virgilp 9y agoReferring to RT as "a television network" is as accurate as saying that Mar-a-Lago is "a privately-owned club". Technically accurate, but knowingly misleading (attempts to present as "irrelevant" what is actually the most relevant bit of information about said TV network/ private club)
- aplummer 9y agoIsn’t your point like saying you can sell to the army because they aren’t the CIA?
- pheldagryph 9y agoHow does one determine that two things are different, or similar, without comparing them? > RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service I wonder if there are National Security Letters and FISA courts (or something comparable) in Russia.
- 086421357909764 9y agoGiven the pervasiveness of SORM deployment across ISPs and tech companies within russia, it maybe that a letter like system is not even required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
- davesque 9y agoWhy would you not accept that premise? The fact that RT is a propaganda channel is widely known.