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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by anticodon on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:29AM (#25147067)
Well, my comment is against the against the grain (rusophobia is trendy in the contemporary world even among Russians). Also, it's a bit muddy. I said that government has nothing to do with censorship, but I contradict myself.

Although censorship in the US is some kind of internal struggle between parties that is hard to understand for an outsider like me, but promotion of rusophobia in social networks and YouTube is probably endorsed by US government. I doubt that ordinary engineers and managers at Facebook really care so much about Russia to boost rusophobic articles in the feed.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by raxxorrax on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:07AM (#25148300)
The US wasn't in Ukraine to promote democracy. Maybe it was a reaction to Crimea, perhaps they wanted to hinder the pipeline between Germany and Russia, maybe they just wanted influence in another eastern European state, but I am certainly not surprised the conflict is escalating. We are regressing to cold war thinking and while I think Putin is a despot, I see the actions of the US very critically.

Sad really, since we had a better political situation just 15 years ago.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by anticodon on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:28AM (#25148435)
US/Europe staged a coup in Ukraine before Crimea. Actually, it wasn't even the first coup staged by US in Ukraine.
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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by raxxorrax on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:43AM (#25148539)
True, and Crimea was a reaction to that. The EU or some member sates might have been involved here too, because EU association was the goal and it is convenient to blame everything on the US.

The pipeline might have been the reason all along for energy independence from Russia. I wouldn't know on whom to be angry if I were someone from Ukraine, but I would certainly be angry.

But people blaming Russian bots on Twitter can only be called low information voters in my opinion.

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