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Blocking RT has little to do with the opinions spread by it (though highly correlated for a variety of reasons), other people in Europe are allowed to say and s
by bootsmann 3y ago
Blocking RT has little to do with the opinions spread by it (though highly correlated for a variety of reasons), other people in Europe are allowed to say and spread the same ideas without any repercussions.
It is about fighting the intelligence operations by a country that is quite literally invading a bordering allied state. RT isn't being blocked because it spread ideas that are contained in some EU law to be illegal and dangerous opinions, they are being blocked because they are owned by the Russian state.
- m000 3y agoMeanwhile, we've been hugging with some other illegal occupiers for decades. They're even allowed to openly run lobbying groups.
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- 0x000042 3y agoCensorship: /'sɛnsər,ʃɪp/ noun counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
- bootsmann 3y agoIf we're going to argue about the semantics here then so be it. Even within your definition this is not censorship. I can copy/paste an article from the RT frontpage onto a personal blog of mine and neither me nor my blog will face any legal repercussions. It's not the information that is being banned, it's the state actor spreading it.
- hosteur 3y agoYou cannot access the rt front page without circumventing the censorship. You may be tech savvy and able to circumvent it. But most people are not. Which is key. It is literally censored.