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These knee-jerk defenders seem to forget that the West bans entire channels like RT and Al Jazeera.

I remember when the Second Gulf War started in 2003, Al Jazeera was removed from cable channels. They were forced to start a completely new organization, called "Al Jazeera America" to 'comply' with local laws. So much for freedom of speech, eh?

And don't even get me started on RT. Edit: HN "discussions" of RT getting banned: https://ibb.co/VtyBSCn



Censorship is bad regardless where it happens. The fact RT got kicked out in Europe is as bad a document critical to Modi gets kicked out in India. One can be unhappy in both cases.


Please show me the HN outrage when that happened? Here's a refresher, in case your memory is weak: https://ibb.co/VtyBSCn


Nobody is getting arrested for watching RT by other means, it's just not broadcast.




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