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A comment on ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by bastardoperator on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:35AM (#30541529)
I do. It's Russia's most powerful weapon where they already control the narrative and push an anti-western agenda. Without internet, the people of Russia will revolt. When communications got cut in Egypt in 2011, people took to the streets which resulted in democracy and forming an entirely new government all within days.

China isn't hiding anything. They try, but it's a fool's errand. The more they try the more people want to know about it. No one in China that lived during that atrocity is unaware.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by lupire on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:38AM (#30541579)
The new generation in China is extremely unaware.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by bastardoperator on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:52AM (#30541758)
I don't think so. I run a popular gaming server and people from China connect daily. It's a regular topic and most folks playing are young. It's not that they're unaware, it's just history for them. It's like saying Americans are unaware that the US military was the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons. We don't like it, but we're not unaware.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by newuser94303 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:19AM (#30542943)
Most Americans are told in school that it was necessary. Several states are trying to remove slavery from history classes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/texas-history-1836-pro... - Texas, Idaho, etc

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by bastardoperator on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:51PM (#30544209)
Depends on where you live and who your teachers are. Texas textbooks promote revisionist history where California textbooks put more effort into inclusion and critical thinking. Most states piggy on the CA or TX version, it depends on who makes the purchasing decisions at the state level but Americans based on location are typically subjected to one or the other.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by witrak on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:34AM (#30543173)
Well, interpretation or background may be biased. But nobody tries to hide pure facts...
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