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If it were true, it would make no sense to try to censor it, so I'm going to bet on it being a joke? I really have no idea who would care specifically about ce
by vba616 3y ago
If it were true, it would make no sense to try to censor it, so I'm going to bet on it being a joke?
I really have no idea who would care specifically about censoring it on HN, anyway.
I always thought everything he said was on orders from the highest, either to troll Western media, or else to make the regular military nervous so they wouldn't start a coup.
- almost_usual 3y agoIt’s definitely not a joke. https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-russia-nuclear-647a545db4e4628676ff7db5b1bded34 https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-russia-nuclear-647a54...
- vba616 3y agoCNN is much maligned, but at least they mentioned Rostov is a long way from Moscow. If CNN and others are covering it, I think it reinforces my point, that censoring HN is irrelevant.
- almost_usual 3y ago> censoring HN is irrelevant How is censorship irrelevant? Yes there are other news sources but it’s not a good look for HN.
- vba616 3y agoIt's not a news source! And increasingly nearly everything that is mainstream news or clickbait shows up on HN anyway, despite the Guidelines page saying it's off topic. If CNN, Reuters, the AP, the NY Times, are covering something, it will show up 5 minutes later if a given item disappears.
- vba616 3y agoJust to follow up on that last sentence, I read this, today, confirming I wasn't the only one thinking it: "So accustomed are we to viewing Putin as a master tactician, that the opening salvos of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s disobedience were at times assessed as a feint – a bid by Putin to keep his generals on edge with a loyal henchman as their outspoken critic." https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/europe/russia-putin-wagner-prigozhin-analysis-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/europe/russia-putin-wagner-pr...