These companies regularly get large government contracts, it is unlikely that there aren’t deeper connections.
I don’t believe free market exists in the USA and I think it’s economy and media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
> I don’t believe free market exists in the USA and I think it’s economy and media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
It depends on sector and scale. At the small- and medium-size business level, yes there are free markets. As you get into large businesses and highly political structures (media, healthcare, education, etc.) you're right, we are nearly devoid of a free market.
It’s ridiculous to say the US media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
The European commission have that legal capacity? If somebody know why they can do that, I would like to know.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/by-banning-russian-me...
Large media conglomerates own such a large percentage of the media outlets that they are literally controlling what is broadcast by using the exact same text and "news" in every single one of their markets. These "local" stations are dicated to what they can air, and forced to carry specific segments whether it is the same pre-produced segment or at the least the same pre-approved copy that the local read verbatim.
That is not a free press. That is a press doing the bidding of its corporate overlords
Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by parts of the West.
Take special note not just of the block, but of the anticircumvention provisions.
Golly gee, you sure got me there on that! Let's rephrase to "parts of the West", what impact does that have on the argument that Western powers engage in media censorship as well?
> I don't want to stun you too much, but the west is not some uniform block of countries.
LOL. You understand it is _literally_ called the "Western Bloc", right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Bloc
This statement is factually incorrect. I don't see where that argument was actually made.
But sure, some western countries have a level of censorship, yes, but that still doesn't approach the level of China.
And just because there is a wiki entry called western bloc, doesn't mean the western countries are uniform. The US is pretty well known for having broad, but not absolute, protections for freedom of speech.
RT- Russia Today English
RT- Russia Today UK
RT - Russia Today Germany
RT - Russia Today France
RT- Russia Today Spanish
Sputnik’
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
Or here's a mass media summary if you don't want to read the official documentation: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-bans-rt-sputnik-bann...
That's great. The block is in the EU. Which is in...the West.
It isn't actually blocked in the US
Look for any coverage in the US press about the gigantic strikes that workers in India organized in November 2020, possibly involving 250 million workers [0]: there isn't even 1 single article written by any mainstream media in the US (and much of Europe).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_general_strike
Hiding implies a deliberate act to obscure, but you're example is most likely nothing of the kind.
> Look for any coverage in the US press about the gigantic strikes that workers in India organized in November 2020, possibly involving 250 million workers [0]: there isn't even 1 single article written by any mainstream media in the US (and much of Europe).
Are you talking about this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/asia/india-farmers-...
Also there was a US presidential election in November 2020, which is the kind of thing that drowns out pretty much every other kind of news story. The fact is that unless an international story has some kind of domestic angle (which includes geopolitics), it probably won't get much attention, because most people just don't care.
That is exactly what I meant to imply.
> Are you talking about this?
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/asia/india-farmers-...
No, I am talking about the strikes I linked to, that happened one month before and are not even mentioned in this article; and which involved many many times more people (even if you don't believe the 250 million people claimed by the unions) and all industries in several Indian states.
> Also there was a US presidential election in November 2020, which is the kind of thing that drowns out pretty much every other kind of news story. The fact is that unless an international story has some kind of domestic angle (which includes geopolitics), it probably won't get much attention, because most people just don't care.
There are many international news agencies that report on, well, international news. Not even one of them reported these strikes, in November 2020 or ever since. I wasn't expecting this to be covered on Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow's shows - obviously. But it is impossible that not a single international and economic news organization in the USA (and much of Europe, if I remember correctly) thought it worth reporting that for a few days entire Indian states were shut down.