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.
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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?