Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by jdietrich on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:09PM (#40268974)

RT, Sputnik and related Russian state media outlets are subject to sanctions in the EU, their broadcast licenses have been revoked and their channels have been removed from terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasts. Their accounts on all major social media platforms are blocked. Their apps are no longer available on the Google or Apple stores. Europe doesn't have a Chinese-style Great Firewall, but EU countries have taken every reasonable step to prevent Russian state media from reaching EU audiences.

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-rt-sputnik-illegal-eu...

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/ofcom-revokes-rt-b...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/01/youtube...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-google-blocks-r...

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by medo-bear on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:49AM (#40271877)

> Europe doesn't have a Chinese-style Great Firewall, but EU countries have taken every reasonable step to prevent Russian state media from reaching EU audiences.

Because they think the EU audiances are stupid?

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by guappa on Monday May 06, 2024 @03:47AM (#40272226)

Because they don't like anti-government point of views to become too widespread.

In Italy the current defence minister is personally earning considerable amount of money by sending weapons to Ukraine, because he's also an owner and manager of companies that make said weapons.

Do you think they'd want to favour open discussions?

No. In fact besides RT being banned, they want to be able to block any website, giving providers 30 minutes to implement the ban, no appeal and no oversight from a judge (https://stop-piracy-shield.it/)

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by pigpang on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:32AM (#40274469)

> In Italy the current defence minister is personally earning considerable amount of money by sending weapons to Ukraine, because he's also an owner and manager of companies that make said weapons.

FUD is the reason why Russian liars are banned from EU.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by guappa on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:09PM (#40276229)

Well italy allows the openly racist newspaper "libero" to be open. I don't think FUD is a main concern when blocking websites.

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