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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by ben_w on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:05AM (#30586771)
The very fact that opposing media is being shut down, matters.

Shutting down the media limits the average person’s reason to know there is even a thing to protest against.

It’s not absolute power over the people, but it does diminish the power of the people.

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by SyzygistSix on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:56AM (#30587785)
It's also an obvious sign to anyone with half a brain that the remaining state run media is full of lies.
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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by ben_w on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:54PM (#30592546)
Harder to spot if you don’t have an outside view. From inside, all you hear and see is that the media which was shut down were “evil propagandist” aligned with $ENEMY who wanted to harm $NATION by spreading lies about $POLITICAL_BUZZWORD.
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