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| Mark Steyn: The Dames of Descending Darkness |
| 2023-09-29 |
| by Mark Steyn The War on Free Speech Over the last year or so, I've had a lot of emails and whatnot from people demanding to know why I'm not on Parler ...er, I mean Rumble. As it happens, I believe I am on Rumble, but right now I can't tell you for certain. Because, for various tedious medical reasons, I'm in France - and in France if I click on a Rumble link all I get is this: NOTICE TO USERS IN FRANCE That's "soon" in the Mann vs Steyn sense. It's been blocked now for almost a year. Headline from Le Monde, November 2nd 2022: Rumble, une plate-forme de vidéos non modérée, est bloquée en France. Which means: Rumble, a platform of unmoderated videos, is blocked in France 'Refuge' of the ultra-right, especially American, the platform also hosts accounts of Russian media banned in Europe, such as RT. RT is "Russia Today", which has been officially designated in the west as "state-controlled media". Which is to say the Russian state - and presumably they only let you hear what they want you to hear. And that's a bad thing. So in France they deal with the scourge of "state-controlled media" by having the French state shut down not only Russia Today, but also all the bazillions of "unmoderated videos" by the American "ultra-right" ...like, er, former Chair of the US House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes. Gee, it's almost like in France all media are de facto "state-controlled". Remember the bad old days when the Soviets "jammed" the BBC and Radio Free Europe? Well, everything old is new again - except the jammers and jammees are now reversed. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 RT is "Russia Today", which has been officially designated in the west as "state-controlled media". Not to be confused with the American MSM which is "party controlled media" of the DNC |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-09-29 08:37 |
| #1 Think bigger: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Multistakeholder governance |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-29 07:42 |