Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by jermaustin1 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:51AM
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EU was sanctioning Russia, and cut off sources of income (advertising and eyeballs) to a Russian state media organization. Not because they didn't want people to look at the content, but because they are going along with sanctions.
Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:56AM
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Advertising income can be dealt with differently, but 'eyeballs' is effectivly political censorship, which was until now a thing of the "bad guys" (political dictators, etc.).
I mean, even the taliban are allowed to keep their twitter accounts - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-twitter-allows-taliban-ma... - but not russia?
Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by Steltek on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:46AM
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I doubt you're going to win your argument using RT as an example. We're one whoopsie away from war. That's very different than regular censorship.
Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:53AM
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We're always one whoopsie away from a war, and some of us (i'm from the balkans) have had a few whoopsies not that long ago here and not that far from my location.
Globally speaking, in the same time, US (and nato and other "allies") attacked quite a few other countries, iraq, afghanistan, syria, libya, they're bombing somalia, bombed pakistan, etc., and none of the media was blocked back then.
Even the taliban are allowed to maintain their twitter accounts ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-twitter-allows-taliban-ma... ).
And now, we're blocking RT, for what?
The first idea was EU blocking rt.com (and some other russian sites), even though their content is perfectly legal, but EU doesn't want the people to look at that content there.