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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.
This just seems completely backwards. We lament every time a country in crisis/civil war blocks Internet for its citizens: Sudan, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Yemen, ... and then we cut Russia from the Internet on our side [1] If the point of sanctions is to get the local population to rise and make it difficult for the government to keep its course, why cut out their access to independent news that would let them know…
I'm not sure why HN comments are so quick to make these extreme fear-mongering comparisons. Just yesterday I saw a top comment comparing Youtube removing a video to Chinese censorship...
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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.
Do you see?
This 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,…
This just seems completely backwards. We lament every time a country in crisis/civil war blocks Internet for its citizens: Sudan, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Yemen, ... and then we cut Russia from the Internet on our side [1] If the point of sanctions is to get the local population to rise and make it difficult for the government to keep its course, why cut out their access to independent news that would let them know…
There's no point in getting the local population to rise up because the vast majority of Russians are pro-Putin fascists. Even western poll show that they're pro-Putin.
The point is to quarantine Russia so that it doesn't infect us.
The ironic thing is, this can apply to most of reddit. If they were really so worried they should shut down the entire site as it's rife with manipulated content and competing agendas. This internet era red scare is very strange to me
Top 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…
Yes, it is censorship. The what, why, how, shoulds, and coulds of it are irrelevant to the fact that it is censorship.
The 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…
You might find this twitter thread interesting: https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1499312121141673986
This 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,…
Blocking .ru URLs is ten times worse than a war and desinformation?