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> Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin's state c
by mcculley 5y ago
> Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin's state censorship machine.
How does taking sites offline free people of censorship?
- adventured 5y agoA critical element to censorship is what's placed in the vacuum after you do the censoring of free information. Censorship is essentially never just the act of censoring, it's typically a larger program in action and almost always includes state propaganda filling the vacuum they create after they censor. They're taking down, or trying to take down, some of the fill-in propaganda that the Russians will otherwise be receiving domestically or that the state machinery will otherwise be pushing outward (eg via RT) for foreign audience consumption. If you want to combat censorship, you'd also ideally want to target the propaganda delivery methods they're using to replace free information. Stripping the situation back to vacuum would be better than just leaving the Russian state propaganda to fill in the vacuum. That'd be a win.
- mcculley 5y agoI get that there is value in censoring propaganda. It is still censorship. I am not convinced that the best action to counter propaganda is to censor it. (I realize I have a bias towards U.S. style free speech. Maybe censorship is best for other cultures. I am still unconvinced.)