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> Last I checked Twitter is not a state-run operation that will arrest or kill people who report information that it doesn't agree with. This isn't Pravda, tha
by autoditype 6y ago
> Last I checked Twitter is not a state-run operation that will arrest or kill people who report information that it doesn't agree with.
This isn't Pravda, that was KGB. Pravda is a better analogy as it was a newspaper. Your comment just flamed with additional hyperbole. There's no need for that here
- chrononaut 6y ago> Pravda is a better analogy as it was a newspaper. Your comment just flamed with additional hyperbole. There's no need for that here I don't think I inflamed anything. You are correct. Pravda did not employ actors who assassinated or arrested other individuals. They were the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. If Pravda was an independent organization that mischievously drove a specific agenda, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. Stating that Pravda's and Twitter's actions equate to the same is implying that Pravda, CCCP and KGB only worked towards ensuring dissenting voices did not have a platform, but otherwise left them alone. Completely disconnecting Pravda from the CCCP is a disingenuous view of the role Pravda played in its presentation of the Soviet state and its actions. Twitter isn't an invisible arm of the US government. So yes, I still believe it's extreme hyperbole.
- mc32 6y agoTwitter at the core represents an ideology. Pravda (of yesteryear) represented an ideology.