Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages

Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by tablespoon on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:54PM (#30579409)

> By the way, Kevin Rothrock is the host of the podcast ‘The Naked Pravda’ from Meduza, which is one of the main independent news outlets in Russian now

That's ironic because Meduza is apparently based in Latvia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza:

> Meduza (Russian: Медуза, lit. 'jellyfish')[2][3] is a Russian- and English-language independent[7] news website, based in Latvia.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by aix1 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:03PM (#30580111)

Russia is a regime where reporting things that disagree with the official govt line is punishable by 15 years in prison[1]. It is not at all surprising that an independent news outlet reporting on and for Russia would choose to be based in a different, but nearby jurisdiction.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-russia-passes-la...

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by abc789654567 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:20PM (#30580266)

>Russia is a regime where reporting things that disagree with the official govt line is punishable by 15 years in prison.

Yes, sure, in a democratic country it's absolutely impossible that a person reporting things that disagree with the official govt line may spend even a single day in prison.

Julian Assange can confirm.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by ViViDboarder on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:38PM (#30581995)

In the US plenty of news agencies have reported on leaked information that the government wasn’t fond of without being imprisoned. The case with Assange is a bit special as he sought out and helped people steal and release information that they were not permitted to release.

If he made an effort to truly remain separate from the sourcing of information, as most reputable reporting agencies do, then he’d likely not be in prison.

Look at the release of the Pentagon Papers.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by jimmydorry on Sunday March 06, 2022 @04:43PM (#30581550)

I'm not sure why you worded this in such a combative manner? It is undeniably true that any government comprised of humans will move to conceal or shut-up inconvenient sources of truth that make their actions look bad.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by Const-me on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:27PM (#30583546)

I agree.

I recently read the book "American Muckraker" by James O'Keefe. It has quite a few examples of that in modern US.

Based on unconfirmed rumors, similar things do happen here in Montenegro as well.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by abc789654567 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:10PM (#30580775)

>Assange is a puppet of Russia

Sure. As well as Snowden and Manning. And anybody else who disagrees with the official govt line. They all are Russian actors. That's how democracy works.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by bvrmn on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:15PM (#30582255)

> That's ironic because Meduza is apparently based in Latvia

It's relocated to Latvia and founded by a former main editor of lenta.ru (a pretty big news agency) after it was raided by government.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by jimothyhalpert7 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:34PM (#30579812)

How is that ironic?

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by aasasd on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:06PM (#30579537)

Another such shocker is that WikiLeaks is not based in the US.

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