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EU approves law to prosecute anyone who shares video from Russia's RT (www.thecanary.co)
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This new EU court ruling is part of an anti-democratic epidemic spreading around so-called 'liberal democracies'

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/07/05/eu-approves-law/

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[–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I think you are misreading what they say. They are not saying RT reporting is credible, they are saying that EU's court ruling makes objective truth not a valid defense from prosecution.

The ultra-Orwellian move makes no distinction whether what the video says is true. It makes no exemption for journalists.

If <insert your trusted reporter> reposts the video to criticise it for all the lies they are commiting a criminal offense under this ruling.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Like the other commenter here said, they are calling Ukraine nazi-riddled. That's literal Russian propaganda.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Saying Ukraine, Germany and Europe isn't nazi-riddled is unfortunately wrong and at current times a bit ridiculous. Saying Russia isn't nazi-riddled is ludicrous. Thinking Russia is fighting the Nazis is the most delusional thing I have heard.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I appreciate the laugh.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    When you're so brainwashed you don't even believe your own eyes. 😂 or maybe you are one

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Maybe we are all nazies! According to Kremlin at least! My country is also nazi according to them. The word has truly lost all meaning by this day.

    Funny how some people actually agree on the notion that Russia attacked because nazies. Like how brainwashed can you be?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    In general, your posts are pretty unbiased, but this one is crazy biased. The writer literally calls Ukraine “nazi-riddled”. It’s like the main Russian propaganda talking point.

    On top of that, banning a country’s propaganda arm isn’t a wild restriction of objective truth. RT can post “water is wet” it gets shared, then they change it to “Ukraine is 100% nazis”. It’s completely pointless to share anything RT says or does and only serves to further Russia’s propaganda.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The writer literally calls Ukraine “nazi-riddled”. It’s like the main Russian propaganda talking point.

    Does it matter to you whether it's true or not? Obviously it's Russian propaganda, but that doesn't make automatically untrue.

    Read this on the topic: Ukraine's military has a real Nazi problem. It's an actually well written article by a Ukrainian academic with PHD in history.

    The larger issue is that you think you're not reading propaganda yourself. That there is a free press that reports objectively. Even if there was, it wouldn't be presented equally to you because of algorithms. Obviously you can't trust what the enemy writes, but it's equally foolish to trust what your own captured news media are telling you. It's approaching a fever pitch here. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION for sharing a video.

    This isn't about hate speech, this is about a difference of opinion on a geopolitical conflict, a proxy war. Imagine you weren't allowed to share videos because they are all "main Palestinian talking points".

    I'm honestly fucking shocked. I didn't imagine we'd get here this fast.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Does it matter to you whether it’s true or not? Obviously it’s Russian propaganda, but that doesn’t make automatically untrue.

    using "these people exist in this country" as justification for bombing and killing their citizens is exactly what Israel is doing with Palestine right now (hamas is there!!! blow everything up and take their land). This is the exact same thing. It doesn't matter how true it is, there is zero reason to justify attacking another country in the modern day and age. Zero. I don't care if the entire country is 100% nazis. Someone existing in another country does not justify any sort of attack.

    So yeah, having that be in a news article used as justification just proves that the propaganda is working. Even on that Ukrainian PhD. It's irrelevant how many nazis are there. Let Ukraine deal with that.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So in other words, you don't care if something is true or false, if it's "politically incorrect" it needs to be suppressed and it's morally wrong to point it out. MAGAts, climate change deniers or anti-vaxxer do the same.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Search for the term putinism and how it checks boxes for neo-fascism.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism#Relation_to_fascism

    The experts generally believe that Putin's Russia is not fascist.

    And no, I'm not a fan of Putin at all. Two things can be true at the same time.

    This is a useful modern definition of fascism: What Is Fascism? An Excerpt From “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It” | Truthout

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    LOL. Read the whole article and not the only part that is comfortable for you. Because some specialists believed this way only when russia wasn't engaged in war and hasn't have mobilization.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I've read the book. Russia isn't unequal based on racial identity. You could make the case it's more sexist and that misogyny is a form of fascism too. But state policy is that the genders are equal. Putin is a sociopath, a dictator, a tyrant or a totalitarian, but he's not a fascist.

    Mobilizing and going to war simply doesn't make a country fascist. You'd also have to apply the label to all countries who joined the illegally war on Iraq and Afghanistan.

    I hate Putin's Russia. Mostly because of the decades of agitprop he pumped into destabilizing western democracy and his climate change denial. He and his cronies deserve death.

    But that doesn't change the historical facts of how regime change came about in Ukraine, that the CIA/NED funded the main Euromaidan organizer and collaborated with the extremist right wing forces there. It doesn't change the fact that Ukraine is being used by the US and now the EU to bloody Russia, for geopolitical purposes. It doesn't change the fact that NATO is historically and in fact enemies with Russia and that they have legit security concerns. That there were and still could be diplomatic solutions. That this needless war is severely damaging European stability and transferring massive amounts of wealth to the military industrial complex. That the entire western mainstream media is engaging in disinformation on the history and whitewashing the Ukraine nazi problem. That we're literally loosing our freedom of expression.

    Two things can be true at once. Putin can be a heinous monster, and everything about the war can be a lie and wrong.

    I'm honestly shocked how many liberals outright deny facts for political correctness. I see no differents to MAGAts or climate change deniers here. I guess there is also a vast amount of political operatives and volunteers active on Reddit and Lemmy to shut down any opposition to the war and the facts.

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    There is no such thing as unbiased. We are all biased by definition since we have our experiences and thoughts that shape us.

    RT is already banned in the whole Europe. This ruling is not about banning RT, it's about negating truth as a valid defense against prosecution. I couldn't care less about RT specifically. But replace RT with any other entity and then ask yourself if your position would be the same? It never ends with one entity. Once they have the power to use it, they will use it again.

    It's another area where EU is erasing fundamental rights, just like they are trying to do with ID verification, chat control and the recent wave of expanded copyright enforcement where they are literally giving private entities access to ban anything they want.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Usually one would expect news to at least attempt to report in an objective manner. Funny how the site they "stole" the court case link from reports on this much better, covering both sides of the argument.

    Absolutely this ruling was about upholding the ban on RT. The court ruled that if you take donations while sharing RT videos, the sanctions also apply to you, and you are criminally liable. It was not about sharing a random link on facebook.

    I also do not agree with the decision, but claiming that this ruling is about negating truth is nonsense.

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