Oh, I thought it was the blanket ban on Russian news by the EU.
Re:Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
by JohnHaugeland on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:29PM
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That's also not censorship.
Censorship is when *an individual is told by a government that they may not publish*.
A government telling another government that they can't broadcast in the first government's space is something really quite different.
Re:Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
by imwillofficial on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:39PM
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When governments + corporations team up, your lines of distinction are meaningless.
The actual censorship is Putin's 15 year punishment for news he doesn't like.
I wish enough of HN understood free speech at a level to pass a test in 8th grade that we would embarrass one another when getting things this wrong.
It really hampers our ability to function in the real world, the way we reject any constraint involving text and then say "but muh free speech"
This isn't intelligent or correct