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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by jacquesm on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:57PM (#30473396)
That was a few hundred people at best. Anyway, I can see that you believe strongly that protests don't work, I've been eyewitness to protests that did work and that changed the direction of a country (in fact, multiple countries) in a massive way.

Those instances are rare, but that's an existence proof that you can't deny (and there are, historically, more examples).

Note that the support for those Canadian protests amongst ordinary Canadians was minimal.

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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by mardifoufs on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#30474882)
I'd assume support for those anti war protests in a time of war is probably lower than the support for the truckers in canada (which wasn't that low, 30-40% of the population). Does that make anti war protests in russia illegitimate ? Especially since appearing to undermine a war effort is usually universally despised once a war starts. Even the iraq war started with 90% of americans rallying behind bush and supported the war, so the legitimacy of the war itself does not seem to matter a lot.
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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by jacquesm on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:07PM (#30474940)
> Does that make anti war protests in russia illegitimate ?

According to the Russian authorities, yes. According to me: those people are real heroes, right now it is far more dangerous to join such protests than when the numbers are higher, especially in places like Russia.

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