1y ago

EU suspends 4 more Russian propaganda outlets

kyivindependent.com /council-of-eu-suspends-4-more-russian-propaganda-outlets/

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Good.
I don't know how to post images, but Google "Dinosaur Liberty Security" or "Dinosaur Freedom Security" and that's what came to my mind.
Gotta control the narrative, right?
Shouldn’t happen. The moment you want to “protect” your people, you’ve become authoritarian. If you can’t trust your people to reject russia propaganda, how can you trust them to elect their own leaders?
- Yeah, just like how arsenic and rat poison should be stored in the spice cabinet, right next to the salt and pepper.
  If you can't trust yourself to know what poison looks like, how can you trust yourself to cook your own food?
- Given the number of people in today's world that rely on social media instead of well-sourced (or better-sourced, at least) publications for 'reliable' sources, it's highly important to minimize the extent to which such platforms can be used to manipulate the outcomes of elections.
  
  it's highly important to minimize the extent to which such platforms can be used to manipulate the outcomes of elections.
  But this isnt doing that. This is only changing who is allowed to manipulate the public through propaganda.
- And if everyone had common sense an anarchist society would be possible. We have laws, that are inherently authoritarian, to make society work because society is too stupid to function without. To quote men in black "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it".
  In that sense I don't see an issue with protecting your impressionable morons from deliberate foreign state propaganda.
  
  Ah yes, the unenlightened peasants cannot be trusted to form their own opinions. In fact, why let them vote at all?

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