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Trying to access Sputnik News but apparently it's blocked by the EU (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(I don't know why it also says Pirate Bay, since I clicked on the Sputnik News URL)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In looking into this again I found a supposedly serious legal breakdown that literally says that in the intro paragraph.

To address legitimate questions of double standards that will come up in the wake of the inevitable whataboutism, it should be stressed that the Union’s measures differ decisively from any authoritarian censorship by virtue of the Union’s character as a community of law.

https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-ban-of-rt-and-sputnik/

The case for blocking Russian media is made on the basis that it is "propaganda for war," yet one cannot seriously argue that what western media is doing isn't propaganda for war.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

yet one cannot seriously argue that what western media is doing isn’t propaganda for war.

Well you see, they are the Good Guys, so they can't do propaganda. That is only for authoritarian dictatorships, not enlightened democracies like civilized European countries. Otherwise, their totally free media would call them out on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So...their argument is literally just "it's ok when we do it?" not even trying anymore. Though I guess they don't have to.