But the presence of a feature does not mean it has to be used?
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My sense of the control of speech is that in the West we don't really have freedom of speech; culturally everyone is offended of different opinions and politically the West censors via finance rather than official controls. You won't go to jail, but you will lose your job, so if you don't have money...you don't have speech. It's a more elegant form of control since it costs less and is less overt. In any case, indoctrination seems to be the aim of the game more than speech; who cares if the truth is available if no one believes it. Admittedly that's just my own observations of Australia (where I live), which never had explicit freedom of speech legal protections.
How do Russians feel about the hatred that has come out of the West over the last two years, particularly from Europe/Poland (since that's my background)?