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You can bet your ass that I'm afraid that an expanding, violent imperialist dictatorship will continue its historically proven tradition of undermining the poli
by marvin 4y ago
You can bet your ass that I'm afraid that an expanding, violent imperialist dictatorship will continue its historically proven tradition of undermining the political stability of my country and thereby make us much poorer and less free.
It just so happens that I'm not stupid, and am sufficiently worried about this real and imminent risk that I will support quite strong measures to defend against it. One of which is making blatant lies and propaganda from the enemy somewhat harder to access for the population of my country, who collectively have the power to surrender to this attack.
- thriftwy 4y agoThat's OK, but you've just gave up on free speech and settled with "information is weapon which must be contained" like in good ol' pre-modern age.
- marvin 4y agoI did not abolish the freedom of speech. This sorts under «tolerate everything except intolerance». Russia will not extend the courtesy of freedom of speech if their propaganda operations succeed, so we must defend it before we get to that point. Before I’m accused of being totalitarian, I’ll just state the obvious that this is a subtle and complex subject.
- thriftwy 4y agoThe problem here is that it takes just one case of intolerance to introduce cascading limitations, and after a short while most everyone is pointing guns to everyone else. Neither Russia nor China are not going to open up their media unless there is reciprocity. But there is no longer any mechanism to source it.