European Union bans four media outlets for peddling Russian propaganda

Euronews ^ | Published on 17/05/2024 - 16:06 | Mared Gwyn Jones

[MeganC]

“So you don’t believe in free speech.”

Not from the enemy and not when a war is brewing.

[dfwgator]

Censorship is always wrong.

Churchill didn’t ban Brits from listening to Lord Haw Haw. And we didn’t ban people from listening to Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not from the enemy and not when a war is brewing.

And who's been "brewing" that war?

[MeganC]

“Censorship is always wrong.”

Russian media remains free to do their business in Russia and the EU is not blocking access to their websites.

But those Russian government agencies will no longer be allowed to operate on European soil...which reflects Russian laws prohibiting most foreign media from operating on Russian soil.

The EU is cutting these firms off from earning money in the EU and that’s another reason to put an end to these tools.

[DesertRhino]

Gotcha. It’s weird how we are living in an era where state censorship has grown so large and is done openly.
At this point, no matter where you live, you cannot accept news vetted and approved by your government.

I mean nowhere. On the very face of it, the government deciding you cannot see some things is outrageously authoritarian.
Especially when you take into account “safest election ever 2020, wet market bat-soup, Hunter’s laptop was a Russian fake, Trump having women pee on his bed” etc etc.

[DesertRhino]

” AfD is strongly supported by Turkic Germans who oppose both liberalism and Islamic extremism”

I had not heard that. Interesting.

[nwrep]

Russia should ban GloboHomo outlets like the BBC, VOA, and Le Monde.

[Sunsong]

Why on earth is Europe so unprepared?

[JonPreston]

They hate The Putin for his freedom.

[MeganC]

“Why on earth is Europe so unprepared?”

Normalcy Bias. They’ve had peace for almost eighty years and they think this is normal. They think that there will always be peace and they castigate anyone who says otherwise, like President Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

“Normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings.[1] Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects.[2] The normalcy bias causes many people to prepare inadequately for natural disasters, market crashes, and calamities caused by human error. About 80% of people reportedly display normalcy bias during a disaster.[3]

The normalcy bias can manifest in response to warnings about disasters and actual catastrophes. Such events can range in scale from incidents such as traffic collisions to global catastrophic risk. The event may involve social constructionism phenomena such as loss of money in market crashes, or direct threats to continuity of life: as in natural disasters like a tsunami or violence in war.

Normalcy bias has also been called analysis paralysis, the ostrich effect,[4] and by first responders, the negative panic.[5] The opposite of normalcy bias is overreaction, or worst-case scenario bias,[6][7] in which small deviations from normality are dealt with as signals of an impending catastrophe.”

[canuck_conservative]

Here’s some more known Russian Propaganda sites -

Moon of Alabama
Sonar21 / Larry Johnson
Col. Douglas McGregor
Martin Armstrong
Grayzone
Simplicious 76
The Busket / The Busker
BLITZ
The Press United
Dances With Bears
UkraNews.com

Don’t fall for the lies!!

[nwrep]

I knew about McGregor.

[marshmallow]

"Propaganda" = any information which portrays Russia positively.

The Thought Police are here to "help" you.

[Sunsong]

Thanks

I think in these incredibly un-normal times people could change a little for the better and pay more attention.

But hey, it’s their choice to stick their heads in the sand as long as they take responsibility for what happens to them because of their willful ignorance.

[Angelino97]

European Union = Fourth Reich

Israel moves to shut down Al Jazeera after new law allows for ‘security threat’ bans on international media

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, more proof of that Democracy in Europe, that has only marginally ever existed, But Europe has already destroyed Europe anyway when they allowed the mass invasion of their nations, by their elected leaders, just as this nation is being overrun by our usurper of the stolen 2020 election, doing that very same thing here.

You just keep proving what a silly little girl you are with these posts designed to generate support for Ukraine, because you just can't help yourself. Yet another nation you claim is a democracy, and they are worthy of destroying this nation in order to save their precious nation.

[Robert DeLong]

So, you support the thought police? Until they come for you on some other topic that you do not support. Then you will cry like the little girl are.

[Robert DeLong]

Now that you mention it, where have we heard that before?

[delta7]

Abolishing Free Speech is a crime- any which way you would like to paint it.

[KarlInOhio]

Anyone here old enough to remember when we condemned the Soviet Union and its satellite nations for jamming Voice of America and Radio Free Europe?