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Version longue en français: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/coupure-russie.html
Several ISPs in France have started censoring rt.com via their DNS resolver.
Why are they doing this? I guess officially they’ll say it’s because of Russian propaganda about Ukraine, and that’s partially correct.
But also worth pointing out is that despite very uncritical propaganda from the regime about what happens in Russia, RT is one of the only mass media (non-independent publication) where you can have decent news about social uproar in France (gilets jaunes, anti-police-abuse riots, etc).
We haven’t reached the point where posts to RT are censored on social media (where it’s most popular) so i can’t exactly say we have “one side” to the news yet but it’s getting closer.
This message is both a fuck you to french ISPs engaging in censorship (remember Sci-Hub? TPB?) and a reminder to all the Putin fanboys around here what “there’s only one side to the news” really means: Russia is already there (there’s a few independent publications but they’ve been struggling for years with State censorship and journalist assassinations) and France is getting closer (on the other side of the narrative). The rest of you who live in countries with more free speech can’t even realize what information control means so please don’t take these words lightly.
That’s true. Sorry for not knowing how fucked up this world was back then.
It’s because I was told that in times of pressure, freedom of information or civil liberties wouldn’t be affected. But this was just dumb thinking.
I was told that this was better, and that this would lead us to an answer. That’s why I believed that this wouldn’t happen.
It is not merely war. The world you were living in was fucked up in the first place, controlled by US-EU imperialism. You were given a Plato’s cave to live in, and you enjoyed the shadows “freedom” “human rights” “democracy”, while in reality outside the cave, something else was always going on.
The “western liberal democracies” always lied to you. And this is a repeat of Afghanistan with worse than Iraq War level of lies.