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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by barrbid8 on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:14PM (#31949546)
Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”.

Just because you are anti establishment doesn’t mean you should instinctively support the Russian establishment which is incidentally many times more horrific and out of control than the people you claim are spreading “propaganda”. (I’m guessing NGOs, charities like amnesty international or anyone who reports on the war crimes and crimes against humanity of the Russian government).

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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by dummy_physicist on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:27PM (#31949756)
I guess the point of the parent comment is that the real issue is not whether this is a anti American or pro Russia thing, but that Google's privacy practices are bad. Any government/institution doing the same would be bad, but the discussion tends to focus on whoever the public enemy currently is.
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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by Georgelemental on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:43PM (#31949983)
> Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”.

Yes it is. Propaganda doesn't have to be untrue

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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by throw10920 on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:36PM (#31950799)
>> Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”.

> Yes it is. Propaganda doesn't have to be untrue

This makes all negative reporting propaganda by definition, which is clearly untrue.

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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by barrbid8 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @03:50AM (#31957067)
The implication in the parent comment is that “anti Russian” propaganda is warping the truth and the people have been brainwashed, the word propaganda isn’t being used to imply the issue is the opposite of “true”.
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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by willcipriano on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:31PM (#31950729)
Propaganda is just something the powerful yell when the truth comes out. It's a exclamation not a description.
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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by avgcorrection on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:44PM (#31950000)
> Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”.

Even if it is RT that is doing it?

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Re:Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest... by cowtools on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:02PM (#31953592)
If you must take it with a grain of salt, you can usually find a grain of truth.
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