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This is not currently what any thinking person would consider a well-sourced claim.
More on that:
Yep.
Of course we won't know what to think about all this until @bellingcat staff get their CIA/MI6 instructions on what to tell us.
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A Love Letter To All Draft Dodgers

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The New York Times is naming and shaming Ukrainian men who've fled the country rather than stay and kill Russians for Washington, because it was illegal for men of military age to leave, and because their countrymen are angry at them, and because it's the New York Times. Image
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Free speech isn't important because it's nice to be able to say what you want, it's important because it creates a check on the powerful. The ability to freely share ideas and information is what makes it possible to change minds, stir the zeitgeist, and organize mass resistance.
For this reason there should be no speech restrictions on the platforms where people have come to congregate to share ideas and information besides illegal activities like child pornography. Not because it makes Johnny Proudboy sad if he can't speak, but to put a check on power.
That's why it's a moot point whether censorship on those giant platforms technically violates free speech laws or not; it violates spirit behind the very reason those legal speech protections were created in the first place, namely to move power from the government to the people.
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Apr 12
"Opinion" segments and articles in mainstream news media exist not to give you an idea of what opinions are out there but to define what opinions are permissible. The front page teaches you what to think, the opinion section teaches you HOW to think.
Look at this article, just as an example. This is nothing other than state propaganda, authored by a think tanker from the immensely influential Council on Foreign Relations. But it's packaged as "opinion" and presented as just some random citizen's views.
When I say immensely influential, I mean IMMENSELY influential.
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US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India

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Apr 11
Psychopathic intelligence agencies and DC swamp monsters have been drooling over this exact agenda for many years, and it is not a coincidence that this NATO think tanker shares their views.
"If you think I am wrong about Russian roulette being dangerous I beg you to consider the fact that the man now handing you the pistol didn't die when he pulled the trigger."
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