DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right-wing social media
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And your "novelist" example is not remotely the same as to what I asked.
We used to have some restrictions on broadcast media like radio and TV, on the grounds that they used limited public airwaves.
But now any jackass can have a blog. And if you try to restrict every blogger, you catch up an awful lot of people.
We do have sanctions against Russia, and they in particular shouldn't have been allowed to do this. But evading sanctions isn't too hard. That's how these idiots are pretending that they didn't know that the money was coming from Russia.
What I really want to happen is for Americans to stop being so gullible about the really obvious propaganda. This stuff isn't subtle. The lies are blatant. Maybe we'd have a real difficulties if they were at least trying to be clever about it, but I honestly don't know how to fix the problem of a near-majority of people buying just-plain-horsepuckey.
I suppose it's frustrating knowing that we got really outdated tools to handle this and the only current alternative (so far) is flat-out censorship/controlling the web.
>What I really want to happen is for Americans to stop being so gullible about the really obvious propaganda. This stuff isn't subtle. The lies are blatant. Maybe we'd have a real difficulties if they were at least trying to be clever about it, but I honestly don't know how to fix the problem of a near-majority of people buying just-plain-horsepuckey.
I think this is something that is true in Europe too, you can see this stark difference in how the eastern European block (Poland, Baltic countries, etc.) has for years been ahead of the game when it comes to Russian propaganda, and those that haven't have either historical ties to it (Slovakia) or is just cynical (Hungary).
Compare this to Western countries and everyone still believes in holding hands and singing kumbaya like it's the 90s and the USSR just fell.