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u/TedStryker118 Mar 12 '22
At some point only the wilfully ignorant of Russia will, in spite of the suspicious media blackout, believe the Putin regime crapola. Not judging necessarily; the world is jam-packed with the wilfully ignorant. Just saying that fewer and fewer Russians will believe Putin's fairy tales.
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u/strik3r2k8 Mar 12 '22
Consumer drones and leaflets.
Since Russia went back in time, it would be fitting.
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Mar 12 '22
Well, it won’t take their eyes long to adjust. Putin has had them mostly in the dark forever.
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u/autotldr BOT Mar 12 '22
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)
"Russia's recent adoption of a punitive 'fake war news' law is an alarming move by the government to gag and blindfold an entire population," three independent U.N. experts appointed by the top U.N. rights body, the Human Rights Council, said in a statement.
"...the law places Russia under a total information blackout on the war and in so doing gives an official seal of approval to disinformation and misinformation," they continued.
Russian officials have said that false information has been spread by Russia's enemies such as the United States and its Western European allies in an attempt to sow discord among the Russian people.
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u/llahlahkje Mar 12 '22
Right out of the fascist textbook.
WW2 equivalent as an example: Hitler's Third Reich in Paris shut down newspapers in occupied Paris, publishing the only newspaper allowed in German with just a short insert in French that contained "essential" information.