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Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by Buttons840 »

agumonkey wrote: post #9
chrononaut wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft and Apple perhaps, but I suspect it's advantageous for Facebook, Twitter, and Google to remain otherwise the state propaganda apparatus would only get stronger.

It's not working great it seems. A few russian kids came on reddit expressing no hatred against ukraine, but being powerless due to the oligarchic structure of Russian politics. It might be a fake account I don't know. But with the recent risky protests.. actually I don't know what to say. It seems that propaganda is somehow deeper on non Russian groups. Lots of people in other countries are rooting for russia based…

Isolating the people will lead them to viewing us as an outside group, and people can easily be made to hate another group. Isolating the people will only make it worse.

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by r721 »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #8
chrononaut wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft and Apple perhaps, but I suspect it's advantageous for Facebook, Twitter, and Google to remain otherwise the state propaganda apparatus would only get stronger.

Aren't Russians mostly on VK and Yandex anyway?

Still Facebook is pretty popular, Statista says the penetration rate is 39%:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/867549/top-active-social...

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by givemeethekeys »

agumonkey wrote: post #11

Is this the first big nation military conflict in the era of ubiquitous video streaming ? It feels like this is de-staging the aggression, you see more details, you see more failures, it feels less impressive than past fights on TV for instance.

All the US conflicts in the past 10 years were in the era of ubiquitous video streaming.

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by cmehdy »

Limiting Facebook access also ensures that the Russians abroad who carry a voice against Putin in the language of their fellow citizens also get silenced/ignored. It's the bully closing his eyes to the damage he's doing, except that he's dragging 140 million people with him.

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by keewee7 »

In the 2000s and 2010s Russia lowered bandwidth on Western social media (and webmail) platforms to promote local alternatives. It worked and most Russians are not on Facebook, twitter and reddit.

However Russia failed to suppress and replicate YouTube that is the only massively popular Western platform in Russia.

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by csee »

hughrr wrote: post #7
asplake wrote: post #3

Honestly, I just wish Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even Microsoft and Apple just withdrew. The Russian government has only contempt for them anyway

No keep them up. There’s so much intelligence coming from them via social media.

And it's good to show Russians the true nature of what's happening. If you remove western social media then they just get the state narrative.

Re: Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

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Post by tut-urut-utut »

agumonkey wrote: post #9
chrononaut wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft and Apple perhaps, but I suspect it's advantageous for Facebook, Twitter, and Google to remain otherwise the state propaganda apparatus would only get stronger.

It's not working great it seems. A few russian kids came on reddit expressing no hatred against ukraine, but being powerless due to the oligarchic structure of Russian politics. It might be a fake account I don't know. But with the recent risky protests.. actually I don't know what to say. It seems that propaganda is somehow deeper on non Russian groups. Lots of people in other countries are rooting for russia based…

You can't win the hearts of people only by propaganda. If someone comes from a country where NATO "introduced democracy" by bombing civilians and installing a puppet government, all Facebooks, Googles and Microsofts of the world will not help for those people to support USA over Russia, which didn't do anything wrong to them.
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