foverzar

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by foverzar 5y ago
No, this mechanism is simply not working. Western politicians and public media have been bashing and portraying Russia as "a haven for hackers" for some time now, but it's not like the US is any better from Russian perspectiv
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by foverzar 5y ago
> I have seen enough war crime photage You have participated in too many instances of two minutes hate and were gaslighted by propaganda. I laugh hysterically (in a very sad way), as I scroll through /r/Ukraine and see yet anot
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by foverzar 5y ago
Just on friday I've read that Niantic (ingress dev company) had banned Russian players.
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> The Russian version of events is very easy to access While technically true, it is evident that people in the west have some mental barriers on visiting RUnet. > widely reported on in the west That doesn't seem to be the case.
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According to current media climate, it is Russian propaganda, rather than a war crime. Jokes aside, I suppose there is some kind of exempt for defenders, unless one can prove that civilians were held as hostages.
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by foverzar 5y ago
> Probably you're lucky to not speak Russian and thus not being familiar with their propaganda Sounds like quote directly from Orwell, tbh. One doesn't even need to interact with "Russian propaganda" to watch Zelensky
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> It sounds like what many people would expect in any country tending towards dictatorship > But it doesn't sound ridiculous > It could have done without the "that's ridiculous" You didn't get my point. It
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Instead of downvoting maybe open some Russian site and see for yourselves what people write. There is nothing gutsy because it's nothing out of the ordinary.
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by foverzar 5y ago
He doesn't ban US channels calling for the same thing because why would he? It's not Facebook, fringe groups be fringe groups.
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Yeah, most of this is untrue, you're read too much CNN
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Why would he? Literally nothing gutsy or illegalish.
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> Its a government policy that is likely to cause people to withdraw their money from Banks and turn to cash No, why would it? Why are you even comparing truckers and ordinary working folk to government officials? The law is about confis
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> Russia would be all over the Baltics, Finland, parts of Poland and Romania, performing special peacekeeping operations. Maybe, maybe not. There would probably be no point in peacekeeping operations if there was no transcontinental mili
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> to the point that even having messages on your phone about it could get you into trouble if stopped and searched by Moscow police Sounds ridiculous, like a half-fake unnuanced broken-phone twisted misrepresentation. > There is also
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> Youtube is not legally bound to air any random video that was uploaded. Although, given that it's not a newspaper, but rather a massive telecom service, it should be. > Censorship is when the government steps in to define allow
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> The issue remains with extrnal media like from China and Russia > we can label them There is already the "The Foreign Agents Registration Act" in the US. And Russia had recently copy-pasted it into their laws, which had ca
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> talk about what a bullshit lie it is And everyone happily consumes this, as no one has their own opinion anymore. Doesn't make it less of a concern from security perspective of Russia. Frankly, this kind of chauvinistic attitude i
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by foverzar 5y ago
Putin wouldn't even be a thing, and modern world would be vastly different, if NATO did not exist. > What was Russia's excuse before NATO was created? Excuse for what? What are you even talking about? Do you even know what NATO
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by foverzar 5y ago
How does Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, protected by Russia under Sochi agreement, constitute as "rubbish justification"?
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> Russia is also a known hotbed for neonazis Any source to it that doesn't try to stretch the meaning of pseudo-term "right-wing" to mean "neonazis"? Are there knows instances of Russia openly incorporating entit
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by foverzar 5y ago
AFAIK you can disable content filtering in settings in web or desktop version, though I am not sure if it also lifts regional legal restrictions.
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> As Russian joke these days goes "Russia is going to be the Northern-most of all the Northern Koreas of the world". Is there actually such a joke? Seems like there isn't.
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Was there something mentioned about imprisonment?
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How is this even related?
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> Every side commits war crimes pretty much every war. The losers go to Hague for ritual humiliation, the winners don't see any consequences because there is no mechanism to compel them to submit to a trial Somewhat agreed. Russia w
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> and then try to make sure they don't achieve much more power later on Which unfortunately, has almost always failed. This time it is also important to remember, that these are not some separate insurgents, these are entities entan
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This is like excusing Russian invasion with the fact that Ukraine was commiting war crimes in Donetsk.
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It's a perspective that gets dismissed in western popular media, despite factual evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/03/19&
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Sorry, but r/ukraine has hardly been a solid source for the last few years. I've already seen a few older videos of Ukraine Armed Forces attacks on Donetsk being presented as "new videos of Russian armed forces bombing civili
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> Not the same. In Russia the only cybercrime that goes to court is Russian on Russian crime. Crime against the west isn't a crime. Nonsense, that's not how it works. > Russians are allowed to write malware and defraud targe

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