Posted on 03/05/2022 9:21:15 AM PST by GonzoII
Access to Western news outlets—including parts of Voice of America and the BBC—were blocked by Russia’s media watchdog on Friday.
Moscow restricted several sites over “deliberate and systematic circulation of materials containing false information,” the media regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement.
Requests to block the news websites were made on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Agence-France Presse reported. Since that date, Moscow has ordered media to refer to the war as a “special military operation.”
The regulator has issued dozens of warnings to independent media, ordering them to remove content or risk being fined or blocked.
The European Union, social media platforms and TV providers in the U.S., Africa and Canada separately moved to block Russian-backed media including RT and Sputnik.
As of Friday, VOA’s Russian language news website was available via a VPN in Moscow, but its English-language website remained open.
VOA, RFE/RL and BBC issued statements saying they will keep reporting and producing news for Russian audiences.
RFE/RL and VOA are both independent taxpayer-funded networks under the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
The agency described Russia’s attempts to block uncensored news as “deplorable.”
VOA Acting Director Yolanda Lopez on Friday acknowledged the ban, but she said, “VOA will continue to promote and support tools and resources that will allow our audiences to bypass any blocking efforts imposed on our sites in Russia.”
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I’ve tried to get rt.com , the Russian news service, so I could compare one liar against another but apparently the liars on our side have made that difficult.
Some liars, it seems, are more equal than others.
RT is out in Europe also.
Keep the propaganda flowing.
BBC brags that they’re banned in North Korea.
I was hard pressed to come up with issues they disagree on.
Maybe gay rights...but I’m not sure about that either.
Apparently you hasven’t heard.
RT (Russia Today) has shut down their operations....permanently. This happened in the last couple of days.
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