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Re:Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet by freeflight on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:54AM (#21877094)
It doesn't happen in the West, because the West rather makes it happen in the Middle East [0], to such a degree that whole generations of people have been scarred for life [1].

While at home we jail people for viewing "terrorist content online" [2], which is so vaguely defined that it regularly ends up being "The other sides PoV", if that PoV even manages to penetrate to the everpresent layer of moderation on social media [3].

After terrorism, the next thing is now "hate speech" [4], and as much as US Americans think they are immune to such trends, they really are not. US millennials increasingly welcome and actually demand more moderation because they think that's gonna solve their right-wing extremist problem.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620

[3] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

[4] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-dozens-of-raids-over-online-ha...

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Re:Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet by SiempreViernes on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @06:41AM (#21878106)
> It doesn't happen in the West, because the West rather makes it happen in the Middle East

Uh, I get that you want to highlight the hypocrisy of the west, but that was an astoundingly poor argument: By killing Pakistani the west silences criticism at home? And then as proof this happens you link to examples of domestic criticism?

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