Vladimir Putin wants to stifle the internet

as if Vladimir Putin’s presidency has been made for television. His bare-chested exploits on horseback, microlight flights with cranes and the fighting in Ukraine and Syria were planned with the cameras in mind. Having helped turn a little-knownofficer into a patriotic icon, television has sustained him in power. But recently, there are signs that the spell of Russia’s gogglebox is weakening. Meanwhile, ever more Russians look to the internet for their news.

One reason Western platforms should stand their ground is to keep faith with their own professed beliefs. The days when people thought the internet would naturally spread democratic values are over. But Silicon Valley’s liberalising mantras are not entirely hollow: rising internet use is making Russia’s information space more competitive. Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader banned from television, has millions of viewers on YouTube.

Foreign internet companies do not have an entirely free hand. Western internet giants have servers in Russia. However, the Russian government would rather cajole the likes of Google than cut them off. This gives Western companies clout. They should use it.

This week in, “how is this not obvious to literally everyone?”

Google seems to have no problem working with China either. Let's not even get started about what these tech giants do to stifle the internet in the western world. Of course, that's different because reasons.

BitcoinNepal yep, but how about EU filternet? here they already can drop your ass into jail for tweet /post. I think it's more important.

How exactly do you build democracy through internet? 🤔🤔🤔

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lmfao

Does that mean that you've also given up using Facebook? Democracy Privacy

Oddly enough I think the left is far more threatening to a free and open internet than Putin

Keep posting new tweets to try and cover up your disgusting and fake news article about ben Shapiro

You mean like stop the censorship and promote free speech? I completely agree.

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