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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by archgoon on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:10AM (#21406360)
> You do realize that saudi arabia, china, russia, etc all have laws in place to hold newspaper editors responsible for printing "truth" right?

Yes, and Denmark too. Also, the United States has laws about lying in print as well, see for example libel laws.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:27AM (#21407254)
But we don't. The Russian government does not need such laws to cause trouble.

Boris Nemtsov got shot in broad daylight in the centre of Moscow.

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