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My parents also live in Russia, but I would prefer setting up a VPN for them over their having to live behind a great information curtain any day. Also after th
by macleginn 8y ago
My parents also live in Russia, but I would prefer setting up a VPN for them over their having to live behind a great information curtain any day. Also after the invasion of Ukraine, indiscriminate bombing of Syria, etc etc, I would personally find myself unable not to implement all kinds of horrible sanctions against the regime, cheese included. Otherwise it would just smack of appeasement policy.
> Google is necessary here to provide the fertile soil on which thinkers can raise and start questioning their political status quo.
No it’s not. Many people are actively questioning the status quo, on all levels, take a recent example: http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/ http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-ho...
- mstaoru 8y agoMy point is that "horrible sanctions against the regime" do absolutely nothing to the regime (or might even improve it, given the "whole world against us, but we will heroically prevail" rhetoric in Russian media), but hurt the lives of normal people, who are completely powerless to do anything with the said regime.