Why don't we just make DNS refuse to resolve the domain while we are at it? This mass censorship is apparently the new hotness.
Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
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#32The free and open global communications network we enjoyed is officially being terminated. It was nice that it existed for a while.
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#33Truth Social will be far right and have bizarre views but unfortunately that is where I would have to go to with the immense censorship in the mainstream internet and media. I really wish this wasn't the case.
You can just use Mastodon. Find an instance that supports your freedom of speech views, or run your own and say whatever you'd like.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Free speech has nothing to do with whether a website chose to join an international sanction. The actual censorship is Putin's 15 year punishment for news he doesn't like. I wish enough of HN understood free speech at a level to pass a test in 8th grade that we would embarrass one another when getting things this wrong. It really hampers our ability to function in the real world, the way we reject any constraint invo…
Oh, I thought it was the blanket ban on Russian news by the EU.
That's also not censorship.
Censorship is when *an individual is told by a government that they may not publish*.
A government telling another government that they can't broadcast in the first government's space is something really quite different.
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#35I see people, government, corporation, media... say about "No war", say about they want peace. But their actions is actually spreading feud, tbh. Media is manipulated by government for their politics. Some people are forcing their own viewpoint to others. People blindingly spreads hates without deeply thinking. Many users from social platforms think they know very well about politics and say like a professor when arg…
No to war is also no to putin’s propaganda
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#36The only fake stories and propaganda I’ve seen so far are from the Ukrainians: - Ghost of Kiev using ARMA Footage. No evidence this person exists. - Miss Ukraine fighting in Kiev. It was an airsoft gun. She says she isn’t fighting. - Snake Island soldiers killed after heroic standoff. They all surrendered. - Nuclear Reactor shelled, radiation rising. A training building was involved in a relatively small firefight. R…
What about when Putin said Ukraine is run by Nazis and used it as an excuse for invasion?
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#37This is bizarre and doesn't even achieve the stated objectives.
The "we must do something!" mentality at work.
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#38The only fake stories and propaganda I’ve seen so far are from the Ukrainians: - Ghost of Kiev using ARMA Footage. No evidence this person exists. - Miss Ukraine fighting in Kiev. It was an airsoft gun. She says she isn’t fighting. - Snake Island soldiers killed after heroic standoff. They all surrendered. - Nuclear Reactor shelled, radiation rising. A training building was involved in a relatively small firefight. R…
What about when Putin said Ukraine is run by Nazis and used it as an excuse for invasion?
There is an active army unit that flies a Nazi flag in eastern Ukraine. I think vice did a thing on them a few years ago.
Saw videos of them kicking black people off a bus so white Ukrainians could escape.
That gets half credit. I’m curious what else people have seen.
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#39Top comment from an admin: """ We decided to do this due to the heavy cyber component to this war and the chance of manipulated content. Even seemingly innocuous links could be hosted by someone that is less benign. We certainly recognize that this is a pretty far reaching decision but there are generally other ways for most people to share the type of content that is being described. As to why this wasn't communicat…
This is the exact same response you'd get if it had everything to do with censorship.
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#40This is so ridiculous. For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit. I'm not Russian. It's not as if Russians can't just register .com domains either. This is just fucking people around purely for the sake of it. What should I do here? Fly to Russia and tell Mr Putin to stop? It feels like corona all over again. Bad thing A happens,…
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