More from the usual Russia Today angle, the same one that's been trotted out for a decade. "If you ban our hostile propaganda, we'll ban your free media." But it's a false choice and you don't have to fall for the transactional bullshit.
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1357253678571388930
Putin and his gang crave access and legitimacy in the free world. Right now, they have it both ways. No media freedom at home, but paid Kremlin propaganda in the free world. One of many double standards that help modern dictators thrive.
"Dateline—Berlin, 1939: Germany complains that the Nazi News Network has been kicked off the radio in America, threatens to sue, ban Walter Winchell in Germany." Fuck off.
Their threat is, "ban our propaganda channel in your country and we'll kick out your reporters and news agencies (whose channels are already banned here, along with everything else not state controlled).
That's just the threat of retaliation, nothing symmetrical or tit for tat. Kicking RT and Sputnik "reporters" out of the country, as has happened in Lithuania and Estonia, would be different. Deplatforming them inside the US is simply that.
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