> The great firewall of China prevents most of their citizens from seeing news that isn’t the party line
Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by parts of the West.
Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by parts of the West.
It isn't actually blocked in the US
RT- Russia Today English
RT- Russia Today UK
RT - Russia Today Germany
RT - Russia Today France
RT- Russia Today Spanish
Sputnik’
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
Or here's a mass media summary if you don't want to read the official documentation: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-bans-rt-sputnik-bann...
That's great. The block is in the EU. Which is in...the West.
Take special note not just of the block, but of the anticircumvention provisions.
Golly gee, you sure got me there on that! Let's rephrase to "parts of the West", what impact does that have on the argument that Western powers engage in media censorship as well?
> I don't want to stun you too much, but the west is not some uniform block of countries.
LOL. You understand it is _literally_ called the "Western Bloc", right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Bloc
This statement is factually incorrect. I don't see where that argument was actually made.
But sure, some western countries have a level of censorship, yes, but that still doesn't approach the level of China.
And just because there is a wiki entry called western bloc, doesn't mean the western countries are uniform. The US is pretty well known for having broad, but not absolute, protections for freedom of speech.