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One of these things is not like the others..

Little of Russia's mass consumption internet is actual free opinion though. While I do prefer freedom, free speech and people making up their own minds, then if the state is not democratic and if it's propaganda by that it produces, perhaps there is basis to block it?

How convenient is to label opinion you do not agree with as propaganda and ban it in the name of free speech. Hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of so called liberal crowd never ceases to amaze me.

Guess what, by large Russian media is no different to any Western media in terms of propaganda and the "us good, them bad" narrative. Russian media advances Russian interests, American media advances American interests and so on. Take any media openly hostile to the state's foreign policy and it will prosecuted no matter the country. Wikileaks, The Intercept, Junge Welt to name a few.

I don't live in the US, but do you think the government determines direction in the media the same way as it does in Russia?

I do get the free speech argument and that the line is thin, but Russian media by large is different from the West: you'll get prosecuted when you start saying the wrong thing.

Yes, this is really my opinion. And unlike yourself, I am well familiar with Russian media first hand and not the distilled version presented by Western propaganda.

How convenient it is to label troll-farm propaganda as "opinions you do not agree with"

Is it really your opinion if you're paid to pretend to hold it?

> if the state is not democratic and if it's propaganda by that it produces, perhaps there is basis to block it?

how do I block ukrainian propaganda then?

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