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I think the assumption was that it spies on users or does something more interesting that just pedestrial propaganda
The fact is it's verifiably used as a propaganda tool increases the chance it's used for other "special" needs too.
Or maybe they checked but didn't find anything?
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I've heard explosions similarly far away (although it was at the coast and in an unusually quiet place). Explosions in the air travel really far. And every time I heard explosions so far I looked at the news/social media. In one of these incidents the news article seemed like it might be a coverup to me so I looked up user forums in case someone leaked the real information.
Do you remember what explosion it was that you heard 80km away? Because I seriously doubt any of the weaponry Russia has dropped so far can be heard anywhere close to that far.
In my original post I was referring to an explosion _inside_ Belgorod: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-strikes-fuel-depot-rus... which may or may not be directly linked to the war; Ukraine has denied responsibility.
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You have changed the question. Russia has banned foreign media, in addition to restricting local media to publishing the government view. Since I'm British, and you'd probably consider the US and UK equivalent for this purpose, here's a major British newspaper article arguing against NATO action in Libya: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/23/nothin... (Given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_US…
I understand that Russian ban of foreign media is not good, but some west countries banned Russian media too and created special difficulties for them early...
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If you consider that the Ukrainian conflict is a war between US and Russia, then yes all western media are pro-Ukrainian (it serves US interests at the moment).
It's not though, so your point is irrelevant.
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Tor, IPFS? It's still besides the point, though: Internet is like radio waves; sure you can be prosecuted for using them for activity that's illegal in where you currently are, but it does not constitute a threat to electromagnetism.
IPFS does two things here that you might not want to use for the use case you describe. Clients host the content they access. The real IP address of people hosting any particular content is discoverable. Using IPFS for this use case could make for an easy list of targets.
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unrelated: could you name one just one US media source that you consider to be independent (with an anti-war article where US is perpetrator).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Ridder Famously debunked the justifications for the Iraq war at the time they were being spread. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/sergei-lavrov-... The Russians view Fox News as a balanced news source. Walter Kronkite, perhaps the most famous TV anchor in US history was publicly against the Vietnam war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
Iraq war is where "embed" journalism became the only acceptable source where journalists were killed by US.
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> No, see, that's but one example of how your unwillingness or inability to accept any complexity or nuance gets in the way of thinking. Or maybe I've heard the "tv license" excuse for many years now. Nothing you wrote is new to me. Surprised you didn't post a link to BBC edited wikipedia article. > If you insist that everything is the same and all politicians are corrupt and all media are lying then you're just givi…
These are insightful and deep thoughts indeed :) > I've no problem calling putin a corrupt politician. Just like I have no problem calling zelensky or biden or trump a corrupt politician. Don't forget Pol Pot. These politicians are all the same. I'm reminded of murderers Oscar Pistorious and Jeffrey Dahmer. Likewise the terrorism of the French Resistance and Osama Bin Laden. What a unique and valuable perspective to…
> Likewise the terrorism of the French Resistance and Osama Bin Laden.
I mean, Robespierre probably killed more people and not exactly for better reasons. Reign of terror was exactly what the name implies.
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I would suggest watching Death of Stalin (2018) to understand why Russia bad
Of course russia is bad. it's an absolute corrupt hellhole, I know that. My point is that so is Ukraine. Not sure why we are taking sides in a war between two former soviet republics both run by corrupt oligarchs
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Currently Russia doesn't have a singe reliable news source. We all have seen the pro-Russian narrative - there's no war, we're not murdering the civilians, all Ukrainians are nazis developing bioweapons targeting "slav DNA" and to be delivered across the border by birds, etc. Those are not news. Needless to say that this propaganda also targets people in other countries with large ethnical Russian population, specifi…
However "unreliable" these news sources are, they present a different opinion that is being censored. And since there are just two sides in this war, you can only see just one side of a story.
Full history of changing official Russian narrative is available.
There is no problem to find Russian official statements at all. The issue here is that you ignore what they are saying in order to pretend it is not available or that it was somewhat convincing.
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On the other hand... I was really against the Iraq war and nobody ever threatened me with 15 years of jail for it. The architects of that conflict left when term limits were up. (Putin did not.) Don't get me wrong, Iraq was pointless. Afghanistan seemed to have a justification at the start but was mismanaged early on. In terms of culture, wide swaths of the population were brainwashed in a similar way to how we talk…
I don't really think if you will do peaceful express your opinion against war in Russia maybe with single protest you will get a real term in prison only a monetary fine and even this is not always the case.