2017-11-21 at 1:06 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Censorship in the west has been growing these last few years, it's recently become overtly political (as opposed to largely cultural) though. This thread is a log for major developments.
- The Russian RT and SPUTNIK news sites have been forced by US congress to register as 'foreign agents' and are being vigorously derided and described by the mainstream media as 'pure propaganda' in what appears to be a co-ordinated campaign (virtually all popular 'mainstream' news, not just US, uses the same language and talking points without giving any concrete examples).
- Rumors that various US cable networks have dropped RT channels (a few have apparently dropped them in favour of i24, more details later)
- Google is working with the State Department to 'de-rank', ie. bury in search results, articles posted by RT or SPUTNIK regardless of their content.
- Small broadcasters are regularly dropped from Youtube for unspecified TOS violations (specifically those running counter to mainstream opinions - broadcasters from Syria, Yemen etc.); the latest being DONi - a group that posts frontline videos and news from the Donetsk region of the Ukraine. They apparently received notice that their account had been closed due to 'violations of many or serious types of spam, fraudulent activity, and misleading content or other YouTube practices' but have not been able to get a response on clarification of the specific 'offense' they committed.
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2017-11-21 at 1:15 AM UTC
Speedy Parker
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[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
This is why I don't use Google or watch TV.
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2017-11-21 at 1:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
This is why I don't use Google or watch TV.
This is the answer
They're now saying that defunding alt news is not enough, they must be taken down.
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2017-11-21 at 8:18 AM UTC
you cant deny RT is utter propaganda tho. i've watched it for a few days time in total, while segments like redacted are funny, they dont really offer much in term of news, more like jokes and comedy and rhetorics.
2017-11-21 at 8:26 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
I can't speak for the TV channels because I've never watched them, but I consider the website to be one of the best major outlets
Sputnik's more sensational and tabloidy, but still stands head and shoulders above stuff like the Daily Mail
2017-11-21 at 8:48 AM UTC
sure it provide something fresh but are they really unbiased ????
i didnt feel so.
2017-11-21 at 2:15 PM UTC
the war on fake news
because god forbid anyone should have to think critically for half a second to evaluate whether or not something is true
i'd rather just have hillary clinton or donald trump do it for me
2017-11-23 at 3:01 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Originally posted by benny vader
i remember something not right with their report on zapad or aurora 17 that wasnt right but i forgot all the details.
let me know if you work it out; western media constantly attacks them as 'propaganda' but I've never seen any examples - when pressed they usually just complain that they have guests or opinion writers that are 'unreliable' or 'conspiracy theorists' or similar.
Anyhow, Facebook is now rolling out a tool that apparently checks your posting history from the 2016 election cycle to see if you 'interacted with Russian propaganda'. They make explicit mention of 'material coming from the Russian troll farm the Internet Research Agency'...
https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-will-let-you-see-what-russian-linked-content-you-followed/Except the 'Internet Research Agency' has never existed as a real group or company in Russia, and the groups that apparently supported it have been arrested for espionage and fraud (including several mid-ranking FSB agents and Kaspersky employees)... Indicating the whole thing is nothing but a false/black flag attack to implicate the Russian government in information warfare campaigns.
http://thesaker.is/a-brief-history-of-the-kremlin-trolls/
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2017-11-23 at 8:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra
let me know if you work it out; western media constantly attacks them as 'propaganda' but I've never seen any examples - when pressed they usually just complain that they have guests or opinion writers that are 'unreliable' or 'conspiracy theorists' or similar.
i'm pretty sure theres an online version somewhere. that and the rohyngya crisis. if you try and spend a few days watching RT news you'll most likely come to the same conclusion also.
Anyhow, Facebook is now rolling out a tool that apparently checks your posting history from the 2016 election cycle to see if you 'interacted with Russian propaganda'. They make explicit mention of 'material coming from the Russian troll farm the Internet Research Agency'…
https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-will-let-you-see-what-russian-linked-content-you-followed/
Except the 'Internet Research Agency' has never existed as a real group or company in Russia, and the groups that apparently supported it have been arrested for espionage and fraud (including several mid-ranking FSB agents and Kaspersky employees)… Indicating the whole thing is nothing but a false/black flag attack to implicate the Russian government in information warfare campaigns.
http://thesaker.is/a-brief-history-of-the-kremlin-trolls/
the better question is did they choose to do so VOLUNTARILY ... or were they told to do so by the [us] government ???
btw, information warfare is speech warfare.
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