Yeah, I know about that. But it's not been implemented, so RT is in practice accessible. As are other Russian websites. I don't know what is sad about it, I'm just saying what is in real life, not what is on paper.
In real life, European hypocrisy is off the charts.
BBC got caught manipulating videos featuring Trump. 12000 people were detained in the UK for thought crimes. In one year. One little old lady was arrested for praying silently.
France went after Durov.
Russia media IS banned, hiding behind ISP incompetence doesn't count.
Come on. Wake up. We who have lived under actual socialist dictators can see what's happening.
I see you have an axe to grind with EU. That's fine, but I'll say that I also lived in socialism, so I do have experience and perspective of what it was like. And precisely because of that, these EU bans don't worry me at all. I know the difference as opposed to many who think they know the difference.
Yeah, the EU (and also the UK earlier) were always lecturing to the third world on human rights and tolerance and media freedom/integrity, blah-blah not so long ago. So many pompous speeches made. Now, it is eye-rolling to see them backtrack hard on everything they stood for.
It implemented on a DNS level. Easily circumvented by using a third party dns server (like Google or Cloudflare). Nonetheless this is political censorship plain and simple. EU crying about censorship in other countries is just pure hypocrisy.
Of course it's political, what else could it be? If Putin's regime is censoring western media, is it any less political? In other words, is there any censoring of news media (foreign or domestic) you would consider apolitical?
> EU crying about censorship in other countries is just pure hypocrisy.
I don't see any crying about censorship. It's a made up argument. Personally, I couldn't care less about censoring in Russia or any other country that I'm not living in.
SanjayMehta|2 months ago
BBC got caught manipulating videos featuring Trump. 12000 people were detained in the UK for thought crimes. In one year. One little old lady was arrested for praying silently.
France went after Durov.
Russia media IS banned, hiding behind ISP incompetence doesn't count.
Come on. Wake up. We who have lived under actual socialist dictators can see what's happening.
jan_g|2 months ago
lenkite|2 months ago
crazybonkersai|2 months ago
jan_g|2 months ago
> EU crying about censorship in other countries is just pure hypocrisy.
I don't see any crying about censorship. It's a made up argument. Personally, I couldn't care less about censoring in Russia or any other country that I'm not living in.