Version longue en français: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/coupure-russie.html

Several ISPs in France have started censoring rt.com via their DNS resolver.

Why are they doing this? I guess officially they’ll say it’s because of Russian propaganda about Ukraine, and that’s partially correct.

But also worth pointing out is that despite very uncritical propaganda from the regime about what happens in Russia, RT is one of the only mass media (non-independent publication) where you can have decent news about social uproar in France (gilets jaunes, anti-police-abuse riots, etc).

We haven’t reached the point where posts to RT are censored on social media (where it’s most popular) so i can’t exactly say we have “one side” to the news yet but it’s getting closer.

This message is both a fuck you to french ISPs engaging in censorship (remember Sci-Hub? TPB?) and a reminder to all the Putin fanboys around here what “there’s only one side to the news” really means: Russia is already there (there’s a few independent publications but they’ve been struggling for years with State censorship and journalist assassinations) and France is getting closer (on the other side of the narrative). The rest of you who live in countries with more free speech can’t even realize what information control means so please don’t take these words lightly.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Can we talk about French genocide of Algeria? Or USA’s ongoing genocide of Yemen since many years? Just because hurrdurr blablabla. I am not morally corrupt to play this grifty game, even though I can play it better than you.

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      3 years ago

      Can we talk about French genocide of Algeria? Or USA’s ongoing genocide of Yemen since many years?

      Please do. We’ve been talking about it for years, but more conversation/information is always welcome.