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[+] -41 points 3 years ago (28 children)

Well most of the EU countries including France blocked all media channels from Russia

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Media channels from Russia are basically just spouting putin propaganda so why would they want to be subjected to that?

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  • [+] -22 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Many countries are spewing propaganda bullshit, including and in majority coming from USA. I don't think media channels from USA should be blocked.

    Switzerland is doing the right thing, they never blocked any news channel or limiting freedom of speech in that way.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Freedom of speech should never be given as an excuse for allowing hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism or anything else on that vein a platform.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    The problem comes when you let the government decide what is "hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism". It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We're already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we're not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    First of all, the USA is not the center of the world, the problems you guys have with mass shooting is not caused by the "hate speech".

    And again banning hate speech is just masking the deeper institutional/educational problems you have, not solving them.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    As someone born and raised in the USA, countries elsewhere absolutely should be blocking virtually all of our news media. We're a toxic cesspool of entertainment/propaganda news, with an increasingly deadly end result for its consumers, and those around them.

    The agenda of the super rich relies very very heavily on our lying, greed-driven news media.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Uh huh.

    Please explain how preventing your citizens from using any social media & blocking an openly imperialistic county & known bad actor from propagandizing your citizens are similar.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    USA is an openly imperialistic country also 😬 . Should we block all media from them?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Wtf does this have to do with some degenerate country's right to shill their low intellect propaganda?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Same could be said for USA. Because the person above mentioned China, Iran, North Korea blocking media for political reasons. I mentioned that EU countries are doing the same. We should not have double standards.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    If france wants to ban american propaganda, I am sure no american will shed a tear lol

    Everyone agree that's the state has authority over foreign bad actor speach. We are discussing here state censoring their own citizen's peach which is highly problematic esp in so called "democracies"

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If france wants to ban american propaganda, I am sure no american will shed a tear lol

    I strongly disagree. If they didn't care they wouldn't be buying media companies abroad.

    Everyone agree that’s the state has authority over foreign bad actor speach. We are discussing here state censoring their own citizen’s peach which is highly problematic esp in so called “democracies”

    Not everyone agrees. Allowing a government to decide who is a bad actor and ban the media is bad, that's how countries fall into dictatorships and create narrative for their citizens. Just look at nazi Germany.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You are clearly missing the point and don't understand how the laws work.

    As always working nAzI GerManY into dicussion lol

    All countries permit the state to censor foreign speach... Most citizens accept this, censoring citizen speach is the issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Not every country has the same law, the fact that the law exists doesn't mean its a good law.

    Its forbidden to mention nazi Germany? I guess we should just forget about it and let it happen again, because it hurts your argument.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What do you mean? Everything works like before.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Well, these are blocked, but if you want to watch RTR Planeta, you can go to the official VGTRK web site and watch it there. Not a big deal... There are only a few media web sites which are banned, most of the toxic shit is still there in the open.

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