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I would rather not be a hypocrite - we call it "censorship" when other countries block us from broadcasting our propaganda into their countries. It's not diffe
by blitzar 3y ago
I would rather not be a hypocrite - we call it "censorship" when other countries block us from broadcasting our propaganda into their countries.
It's not different this time or when we do it or any of the usual contortions attempted to maintain a barely passable facade of intellectual honesty.
- bootsmann 3y agoCan you actually point to any examples of those "western state-funded propaganda operations" that are being blocked? You claim there is an equivalence, so why don't you put up some examples of these purportedly equivalent things.
- boomboomsubban 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Russia
- bootsmann 3y agoFair example
- blitzar 3y agoChina bans BBC World News from broadcasting - 12 February 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56030340 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56030340 British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the move an "unacceptable curtailing of media freedom".