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Comment by SanjayMehta | Hacker News Reader

Blocking RT is not censorship?

Nor is sanctioning your own journalists? Or a former intelligence agent, a Swiss national who worked for NATO, and now lives in Belgium?

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You link to a comment which lists a number of russian-paid propaganda actors spreading lies and hate. They have not been censored by a government but by courts which based on evidence identified breaches of law. It's something very different from censorship.

RT was not censored by any courts of law. It was censored by an unelected executive branch.

Also it's not "censored in Europe" I am in Switzerland and can still access it

So say when China censors USAian and European sites, that's authoritarian, but when Europe does it it's very different from censorship.

Got it.

Col Jacques Baud is the exception to your rant. He's a retired swiss intelligence officer who served with NATO.

He didn't even quote a Russian source in his books, has refused to appear on any Russian media channel.

Now explain why he's sanctioned.

Pensioner called Merz "pinoccio," now faces police investigation.

Even our "authoritarian" PM Modi ignores petty nonsense like this. You people need to wake up.

https://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/stadt-heilbronn/friedrich-me...

Blocking someone who's sole purpose is to destabilise your region is wrong? You are an idiot if you think that one should let them spread their lies and anti EU propaganda freely.

Imagine what the Russian government tells its citizens about (blocked) European and American foreign news, and then you will see why this is a terrible argument. The mark of a free country is that nothing is blocked, because the citizens can be trusted to think.

And y64 can see where that th5n25ng br64ght the us. Rampant Russian disinfo helped push them into the mess they are in. No thanks, I still stand by that some things needs to be banned, be it foreign disinformation campaigns or nazis eg.

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