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Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by _kbh_ on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:13AM (#34136034)
> If this was a Chinese message board or Russian message board, I could make opposite predictions and be met with much more interesting debate and intellectual curiosity, as their information control mechanisms aren't nearly as sophisticated, and as a society they tend to be much more pragmatic and intellectually curious.

How do you mesh this with the fact that you can and will be arrested in Russia for calling the war in Ukraine a war, or for even protesting with a blank sign?.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by rsj_hn on Monday December 26, 2022 @09:51AM (#34138008)
I recommend finding better news sources.

As a simple example, there was an employee of a TV news station in Moscow that started screaming pro-Ukraine things on the air, on live TV. She was given a 100 ruble fine (for causing a disturbance) and released.

Meanwhile, people in the EU are actually imprisoned for supporting Russia. And of course Ukraine has death squads, and merely being accused of supporting Russia or being accused of speaking Russian is enough to end up in one of the filtration camps.

The two situations are not comparable at all.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by _kbh_ on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:57PM (#34142857)
> I recommend finding better news sources

I’d suggest you find better new sources because I have seen the videos of the people being hauled off by the Russian police for holding a blank sign where as your example does not even exist.

Here’s an example

https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1502761903046774786

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