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Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#42Why don't we just make DNS refuse to resolve the domain while we are at it? This mass censorship is apparently the new hotness.
That was proposed, but ICANN rejected the idea.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#43Top 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.
This line of reasoning, presented without evidence, can be used to undermine virtually any statement; it doesn't contribute to discourse in any way.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
When governments + corporations team up, your lines of distinction are meaningless.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#45Top 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.
Huh? It’s also the exact same response you’d get if it had nothing to do with censorship. Your comment offers nothing.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#46Truth 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.
As long as you're not critical about the state of Israel you should be fine there.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#47Top 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…
They are saying someone might post information on an .ru link that they don't want people to see. Isn't that basic censorship?
That said, this is just par for the course of Reddit. Just like how every subreddit has arbitrary rules that discourage viewpoints the moderators don't want people to see whether that's Bitcoin Cash on r/bitcoin or getting scolded by a mod on r/vancouver when I said something bad about the DTES.
Banning .ru is about as effective towards the imagined cause as subreddits putting up yellow and blue banners.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is this group enlisted in the Ukrainian army? Are they holding political office or have strong influence on the politics of Ukraine?
If having a bunch of Nazi idiots in your country is "half credit", then I think every single country on earth gets "half credit" on being governed by Nazis
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the exact same response you'd get if it had everything to do with censorship.
This line of reasoning, presented without evidence, can be used to undermine virtually any statement; it doesn't contribute to discourse in any way.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're talking about. But I think it's pretty basic common sense that nobody censoring information will explicitly admit to it.
Re: Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
#50The 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…
> A training building was involved in a small firefight. Reactor was never in danger and radiation levels didn’t change.
1. This wasn't a small firefight. It was an hours long fight including numerous tanks, armored vehicles, rpgs, etc.
2. The training building caught fire, but it was far from the only piece of the complex shelled.
You can find the 4 hour long video of the fight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUT36YGOh8
I'm not going to watch it again to find you timestamps (sorry), but I can assure you that in it other buildings (including the building with the camera, which is not the building which caught fire) are seen being shelled.
I also believe that this footage/geolocation of damage within the complex is credible, though I have no hard proof of that: https://mobile.twitter.com/RespectIsVital/status/14998955944...
Edit: The information about radiation levels increasing does appear to have been false, but that's the only incorrect claim I've seen about what actually happened. There are also competing claims about how badly this reactor could melt down if it lost cooling, so at least some of those are incorrect. Which of these are intentionally false though is unclear.