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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.War censorship exposes Putin's leaky internet controls
By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY BOSTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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theFu
If the Russian people don't have access to the real information, how will they know how many lies they are being told by their leadership?
There are only so many photos of Russian soldiers providing food and clothing to Ukrainian refugees that can be shown as propaganda.
Numan
Putin in his "mid-life crises" is trying to fight the whole world before he calls it quits or is removed.
Last week, he made piracy legal.
Who will be the main manufacturer to Russia with all those pirated products........China!
China needs to be sanctioned the moment they step up to help Russia!
nandakandamanda
China has already helped Russia by providing cheap tires for their military vehicles.
Express sister
Russia's online disinformation campaign has been incredible.
It's no coincidence, for example, that the very same people who said, "despite the evidence, Russia never interfered in US elections" are now also saying "Russia was right to invade, and any casualties are Ukranian false flags".
eric_japan
This is already going on in other countries, just to a lessor degree. The crazy thing is, most of you think it’s ok. Until it isn’t…DOH
Eastman
here we are also getting just one sided informations.
always read stories written by CNN,AP etc but no news from other side so cant make own judgment and yes-its one sided propaganda published even here.
so what comrades?
action reaction.
censorship exists even in Japan and even here-even its unconstitutional or in other words-against japanese constitution.
i dont understand why someone is "upset"?
GBR48
Everyone censors, including the West. It isn't the West v Russia or China, but users v. governments.
VPNs are still viable. If they try to block them, as the Chinese do, distributed apps, distributed networking and other similarly configured technologies can render any state censorship or blocking pointless. That goes for the Great Firewall of China too.
Any mail, news, website or video can be packaged, encrypted and moved via proxy means, as long as there is a single point of access from one side of the national block to the other. Data can flow like water between any two points on the net, if your tech is distributed enough.
Alex
Every government on the planet does this to manipulate the narrative they are trying to feed the population.
theFu
There are different types of interference. Russia didn't physically change any votes or voting machines. However, they did convince some gullible Americans to attempt these things and continue to have some Americans, often in the far right, that Russia isn't leading them by the snout to disagree with other Americans about nearly everything "just because." The impact in the US has been more about widening gaps and pushing for disagreements, along with some violence, due to different views. Russia is doing this around the world - Italy, Germany, UK, and in Ukraine.
Intelligent people can see the Russian influence clearly, in their own countries and in Ukraine. It isn't exactly subtle.
Be careful believing that your VPN is actually secure. Many of them still use out of date versions of TLS which are known to have been cracked by Chinese intelligence. The VPNs using the newer versions are 100% blocked and have been over a year. Ask a govt spy agency who you trust about this. In the US, the NSA has spelled out the problem.