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False equivalence. There's a big difference between blocking state-owned media that are direct propaganda tools (e.g. RT, although I don't think they're actuall
by city17 5y ago
False equivalence. There's a big difference between blocking state-owned media that are direct propaganda tools (e.g. RT, although I don't think they're actually being blocked anyway) and blocking a general social media platform that has opinions from all sides on it.
- foverzar 5y agoI don't suppose the structural equivalence actually makes sence here. In practice, there is simply no need to block russian social media as no one actually cares about russian social media, beside Russians and people from other CIS countries, like Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine (AFAIK, Ukraine actually blocks quite a lot of large ru-net sites, both social media and news outlets). It would be an honest comparisson if e.g. Telegram gets more popular in the West and there would be actual temptation to pressure it. We actually already see the first signs of it in Germany, where anti-lockdown protestors are using Telegram and the government doesn't like it. And remember what had happened to TikTok as soon as it became massively popular? It was forced to surrender and get sold without a second thought.
- rosmax_1337 5y agoTwitter is not: > a general social media platform that has opinions from all sides on it. Platforms like that exist, but are generally called despicable by people because of the multitude of generally supressed voices that are heard on platforms like that. Neither is Youtube, or Facebook. Ever since 2015 and 2017 dissident voices in the west have been banned from all these platforms.