Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
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Think how important this story is. France, like all EU states, *legally barred* any platform from airing RT or other Russian outlets even if those platforms with to. It’s legally required to censor it.
France demanded Rumble obey, if though Rumble isn’t a French company....
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
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5m
Rather than obey France’s censorship order, Rumble turned its services off for France and will sue. If French people are happy being blocked from information Macron and EU want to ban, good for them.
But France should have no right to impose its censorship laws on the world.
The thing is that at least the English language version of RT is closer to an aggregator of news, rather than a source. They do a few things, like actually report on what is going on in Russia, particularly what the government there is saying, as opposed to what the Neocons on CNN are saying about the Russians. They’re also quite good at aggregating stories showing the PURE IDIOCY of the West, whether it’s Lea Thomas, or the UK blowing up more coal power plants.
They also try to report in an unbiased way, so instead of saying “Trump’s false claims of election fraud”, as the Neocon-controlled news outlets like CNN say, they’ll simply say “Trump’s claims of election fraud”...and let the reader decide if they’re false. And they include both sides - if the West disputes something that Russia says, they’ll include the Western reply.
To put it another way, RT is MUCH CLOSER to what the Western Media was during the Cold War, while Western Media, today, is much more like the Soviet Union...right down to SILENCING opposing views.
Glenn needs an Editor?