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People are always going to be influenced, that's the whole point of political campaigns, to influence you to vote for them. If they claim Russia tried to influe

by brabel 2y ago

People are always going to be influenced, that's the whole point of political campaigns, to influence you to vote for them. If they claim Russia tried to influence the Romanian people, and that they did it successfully enough to have their chosen candidate win, I think that shows more a failure of the other candidates than anything. You can't just tell every country in the world: please don't interfere with our opinions!!! We want our people to only be influenced by ourselves!!! I would love to see exactly what they claim Russia did to influence so many people to affect the result of the elections. Last time they claimed this in the USA, it has been shown that the influence was actually widely blown out of proportion. The 2024 results seem to show that people would've voted the way they did anyway, and maybe even in larger numbers. There's very little evidence to the contrary.

sebastianz 2y ago
> You can't just tell every country in the world: please don't interfere with our opinions!!! We want our people to only be influenced by ourselves!!! You can indeed, and countries do indeed have laws governing this, as does Romania[1]. The sources of spending for electoral ads have to be very transparent, and adhere to various regulations, such as that foreign governments, institutions and companies cannot finance local elections. [1]: https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/73672 https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/73672
- linuxftw 2y ago
  The people in power passed laws to keep themselves in power? Tell me more.
  - bar000n 2y ago
    International law always sanctioned a state's intervention in another state's affairs. In addition to this very well known fact by jurists, there is also recent works in the field contradicting your position. "International law prohibits states from intervening in the internal and external affairs of other states [...] as coercion-as-control, an action materially depriving the victim state of its ability to control its sovereign choices. This may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state is entirely unaware of." [1] [1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CF9ED44C35C14E00D3B3AC6685861338/S0002930023000404a.pdf/revisiting_coercion_as_an_element_of_prohibited_intervention_in_international_law.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

by brabel 2y ago

sebastianz 2y ago

> You can't just tell every country in the world: please don't interfere with our opinions!!! We want our people to only be influenced by ourselves!!! You can indeed, and countries do indeed have laws governing this, as does Romania[1]. The sources of spending for electoral ads have to be very transparent, and adhere to various regulations, such as that foreign governments, institutions and companies cannot finance local elections. [1]: https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/73672 https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/73672

linuxftw 2y ago
The people in power passed laws to keep themselves in power? Tell me more.
- bar000n 2y ago
  International law always sanctioned a state's intervention in another state's affairs. In addition to this very well known fact by jurists, there is also recent works in the field contradicting your position. "International law prohibits states from intervening in the internal and external affairs of other states [...] as coercion-as-control, an action materially depriving the victim state of its ability to control its sovereign choices. This may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state is entirely unaware of." [1] [1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CF9ED44C35C14E00D3B3AC6685861338/S0002930023000404a.pdf/revisiting_coercion_as_an_element_of_prohibited_intervention_in_international_law.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...