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Radio Free Asia/Liberty/etc. don't pretend to be someone else while they are broadcasting.

by creato 5y ago

foverzar 5y ago
What exactly do you mean by "don't pretend to be somebody else"? They often operate under an umbrella of media projects that act as "local" news.
- cscurmudgeon 5y ago
  https://www.rfa.org/about/info/mission.html https://www.rfa.org/about/info/mission.html Says right in their about page they are under a govt. mandate. The local language pages also have this information. > Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and few, if any, free speech protections. All broadcasts are solely in local languages and dialects, which include Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, and Korean. Edit: A discussion like this wouldn't even happen inside China.
  - foverzar 5y ago
    Well one can argue that the Shanghai police was also quite transparent about it, given the following: > On May 21, a branch of the Shanghai police posted a notice online seeking bids from private contractors for what is known among Chinese officialdom as public opinion management.
    - Tostino 5y ago
      One would be disingenuous if they argued that.
    - cscurmudgeon 5y ago
      Don't you see the difference between that and posting a notice on the Facebook domain visible to all?
      - foverzar 5y ago
        I see what you mean, but it is only evident when you actually know of RF as a political entity. It's not as evident when they operate under localised brands posing as "just small local news". In Russia RF's news outlets were the ones who resisted the foreign funded media explicit labeling regulations the most and were the slowest to comply and start labeling their content explicitly. What I mean is their degree of transparency is quite debatable and raises some red flags.
pphysch 5y ago
And yet, mysteriously, Twitter doesn't label them as "State-affiliated media" like it does with the Big Bad Guys.

Radio Free Asia/Liberty/etc. don't pretend to be someone else while they are broadcasting.

by creato 5y ago

Radio Free Asia/Liberty/etc. don't pretend to be someone else while they are broadcasting.

What exactly do you mean by "don't pretend to be somebody else"? They often operate under an umbrella of media projects that act as "local" news.

cscurmudgeon 5y ago
https://www.rfa.org/about/info/mission.html https://www.rfa.org/about/info/mission.html Says right in their about page they are under a govt. mandate. The local language pages also have this information. > Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and few, if any, free speech protections. All broadcasts are solely in local languages and dialects, which include Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, and Korean. Edit: A discussion like this wouldn't even happen inside China.
- foverzar 5y ago
  Well one can argue that the Shanghai police was also quite transparent about it, given the following: > On May 21, a branch of the Shanghai police posted a notice online seeking bids from private contractors for what is known among Chinese officialdom as public opinion management.
  - Tostino 5y ago
    One would be disingenuous if they argued that.
  - cscurmudgeon 5y ago
    Don't you see the difference between that and posting a notice on the Facebook domain visible to all?
    - foverzar 5y ago
      I see what you mean, but it is only evident when you actually know of RF as a political entity. It's not as evident when they operate under localised brands posing as "just small local news". In Russia RF's news outlets were the ones who resisted the foreign funded media explicit labeling regulations the most and were the slowest to comply and start labeling their content explicitly. What I mean is their degree of transparency is quite debatable and raises some red flags.

pphysch 5y ago

And yet, mysteriously, Twitter doesn't label them as "State-affiliated media" like it does with the Big Bad Guys.