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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.

    • southerntofuOP
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      3 years ago

      Who genocided the muslim populations of the USSR? Was it the USA and western colonizers too? Does that ring any bells? From the wikipedia page on Deportation of Chechens and Ingush:

      The deportation was prepared from at least October 1943 and 19,000 officers as well as 100,000 NKVD soldiers from all over the USSR participated in this operation. The deportation encompassed their entire nations, as well as the liquidation of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The demographic consequences of this eviction were catastrophic and far reaching: of the 496,000 Chechens and Ingush who were deported (according to Soviet archives; Chechen sources put the deportees at 650,000[1]), at least a quarter perished. In total, the archive records show that over a hundred thousand people died or were killed during the round-ups and transportation, and during their early years in exile in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSR as well as Russian SFSR where they were sent to the many forced settlements. Chechen sources claim that 400,000 died, while presuming a higher number of deportees.

      Just because western empires are evil does not mean other empires have to be good.

        • southerntofuOP
          31·
          3 years ago

          Can we talk about French genocide of Algeria? Or USA’s ongoing genocide of Yemen since many years?

          Please do. We’ve been talking about it for years, but more conversation/information is always welcome.

            • southerntofuOP
              31·
              3 years ago

              I certainly did not. You are becoming paranoid. And if you take a look at my history of comments here or on HN, you’ll figure out talking about the crimes committed by France and USA is among my “favorite” topics and i’m not a CIA-fed puppet. I would even talk about my anti-imperialist activities here in France but that’s pointless since i’m just a nickname somewhere on the Internet and could be making it all up.

    • Julianus
      65·
      3 years ago

      Here’s some more whataboutism for you: Aleppo. Grozny. Go all the way back to Afghanistan, where this “non-genocidal” state carpet bombed during the planting season to starve the population. Projection, indeed.