Wowzers! You get banned for posting sources not sanctioned by the empire apparently. I thought dbzer0 was supposed to be a leftist instance, but they ban just like the lib and zio instances like .world and ShitJustFash?!

I see lib rags spammed all over the feed…

🙄

  • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    Those are headlines of news articles that have been written by various “news” sites.

    I cannot find the first one anywhere, but the second one, titled “Zelensky seeking to ‘punish’ Slovakia for peace aspirations – Fico”, is an article on rt.com . RT.com has banned all of Finland from reading its site because in Finland basically everyone would catch its lies, so I cannot read the actual article; I merely found a link to it on a site that has not banned Finns.

    But, using rt.com as a source tells enough anyway.

      • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, I know that’s possible. But I really don’t have any need to. I’m not going to bother something like that in order to read rt. I speak Russian well enough that I can read the same news in Russian if I really want to become more stupid.

    • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
      23·
      8 days ago

      RT.com has banned all of Finland from reading its site because in Finland basically everyone would catch its lies

      what no lol https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/27/european-court-upholds-broadcasting-ban-on-russias-rt

      but just because it’s from RT doesn’t necessarily make it false. I would trust them much more on palestinian reporting than Spiegel or Haaretz for instance. They all have ideological bias you just need to be aware which it is. I’m not gonna get news critical of Ukraine from the west, I gotta go to the east for that and vice versa. It’s important to cross-check and verify.

      • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        RT’s “bias” is that it exists in order to intentionally spread lies.

        And also, I was talkung about the website, not a television channel. In Finland, not in France. It’s indeed the way around that the Russian sites block Finnish IP addresses, not the other way around.

        If it was EU blocking RT’s site, you would be unable to access it from anywhere in EU, not only from the country least willing to censor Internet in all.of EU. Rt.com works just fine from Germany and France, because there people know less about the Russia and the stories are believed by many enough people.

        In Finland rt.com would just scare Finns into disliking the Russia even more. It’s not in the interests of Moscow to let us browse it.

        • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
          11·
          7 days ago

          Rt.com works just fine from Germany and France, because there people know less about the Russia and the stories are believed by many enough people.

          i’m in germany, rt.com doesn’t work from here, I don’t know where you got the idea from that RT blocked the entirety of finland because they couldn’t cope with the superior finnish intellect but german and french people are just more gullible I guess?? Fucking wild lmfao 🤣

          It was an EU order because they need to sweep ukraine’s nazi problem under the rug or like provide sources to the contrary?

          • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            It’s obvious that Ukraine’s nazi problem must be solved. I don’t know if it makes sense to call it “sweeping under the rug”, though. More like “push back within the problem’s own borders” would feel like a better wording :)

            • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
              41·
              7 days ago

              The fact that neonazi paramilitary organisations like the Azov regiment got folded into the ukranian army proper, and how zelensky’s main oppositional candidate zaluzhnyi is a banderite never seem to come up however? Compare with APnews for example.[1] Except of course in russian media, because the most powerful propaganda is the one that is true. Which is why I say you gotta sort the wheat from the chaff and also have an all-grain diet.

              1. Before my edit I falsely linked an article from the “The economic times” (an indian newspaper) as from “The economist”: Compare with the economist for example. ↩︎

              • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                2·
                6 days ago

                There is a fascism problem inside free Ukraine, indeed. It’s been there since around year 2005 in an increasing strength until year 2014 when it started decreasing, albeit sadly slowly.

                It has never reached the levels it has in the Russia, but it was nevertheless very visible when I lived there in 2015 and 2016.
                Putin’s project of funding fascism in the Russia and in all countries under Russian influence, that he started around year 2005, is horrible indeed! I can understand how the organizations were useful for doing his dirty work for him, but it’s horrendous that he chose to take that way.

                Of course the fascist organizations in Ukraine lost almost all of their funding when they started fighting against the Russia, but it still takes time for all that to diminish away.

                Also, just like you told, it is a success story how Ukraine managed to dilute the right-wing extremism from the nazi troops that saved its ass in 2014. Until around year 2018 there was a big risk of a fascist revolution, because in 2014 the Ukrainian military was nothing but a joke. It was only a tool for the highest officers to get free workforce for building dachas. And a horrible place to serve, causing deaths of servicemen. Basically the same thing as Belarusian military is now in 2026.

                And at the same time, the nazi organizations got seriously good in fighting starting from 2014. Ukraine basically didn’t have an army at all and the nazis were really interested in doing a coup. Ukraine successfully defused the situation by slowly integrating those organizations in its official military forces. The leadership was forbidden from being openly nazi and an increasing amount of soldiers were without any nazi connections whatsoever.

                It is very clear that the leadership of the Azov battalion are still okay with fascism, but they are not able to effectively push for it any longer. And once the war, after all these 12 years, is at last at its end, it can be at last disbanded. Currently they are still the most skilled army unit in Ukraine and without them, Ukraine would risk losing the war to the fascist country. If that happened, the funding of nazi organizations in Ukraine would return and we’d see a nazi problem far bigger than currently – most likely it would reach the same levels as currently on Crimea and Donbas, which are the only parts of Ukraine where far-right violence didn’t start getting less common in 2014, but instead increased a lot.

                The current situation is weird, because Azov battalion, military unit still led by actual fascists, is keeping Ukraine securely on an anti-fascist path. If they disappear, nazism will become much more commonplace in Ukraine.

                If you support the Russia in this war, you are a fascist.