Censure de domaines russes ($6522) · Snippets · Snippets
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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.

    • nachtigall@feddit.de
      52·
      3 years ago

      You calling something “hardly” does not matter. After all, Ukraine is also just 1 country by your logic, just like Spain, right?

      My point was rather that Spain is in the far west of Europe and therefore I would hardly call it eastward expansion.

      I meant 1949 and not 1959 to demonstrate NATO expansion

      Makes more sense in that case, especially considering Greece and Turkey.

      Also, I think, one can debate whether German reunification in 1990 counts as expansion since the 2+4 treaty states that no NATO troops may be placed permanently in eastern Germany and as far as I know this was not violated yet.

        • Liwott
          31·
          3 years ago

          To the east of US and UK, the colonial masters of Anglosphere, is everything else on the east side of theirs.

          Spain is West of UK though, at this rate you are realy suggesting that Europe be viewed as Russian territory. It is realy strange to call “eastward expansion” something that happened west of most NATO infrastructure…

    • Liwott
      32·
      3 years ago

      when I meant 1949 and not 1959 to demonstrate NATO expansion

      there’s a huge difference between “since the 60’s” (as is continuously) and “in the 50’s then since the 90’s”. Depicting what happened in the early 50’s as agressive western expansion against peaceful eastern block is at the very least unfair, both sides were preparing for the eventuality of war at that time.