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Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by vba616 on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:22PM (#36455186)
If it were true, it would make no sense to try to censor it, so I'm going to bet on it being a joke?

I really have no idea who would care specifically about censoring it on HN, anyway.

I always thought everything he said was on orders from the highest, either to troll Western media, or else to make the regular military nervous so they wouldn't start a coup.

Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by almost_usual on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:27PM (#36455219)
Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by vba616 on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:35PM (#36455274)
CNN is much maligned, but at least they mentioned Rostov is a long way from Moscow.

If CNN and others are covering it, I think it reinforces my point, that censoring HN is irrelevant.

Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by almost_usual on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:39PM (#36455300)
> censoring HN is irrelevant

How is censorship irrelevant? Yes there are other news sources but it’s not a good look for HN.

Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by vba616 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:30AM (#36455593)
It's not a news source!

And increasingly nearly everything that is mainstream news or clickbait shows up on HN anyway, despite the Guidelines page saying it's off topic.

If CNN, Reuters, the AP, the NY Times, are covering something, it will show up 5 minutes later if a given item disappears.

Re:Prigozhin starts armed insurrection in Russia by vba616 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:31PM (#36460123)
Just to follow up on that last sentence, I read this, today, confirming I wasn't the only one thinking it:

"So accustomed are we to viewing Putin as a master tactician, that the opening salvos of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s disobedience were at times assessed as a feint – a bid by Putin to keep his generals on edge with a loyal henchman as their outspoken critic."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/europe/russia-putin-wagner-pr...