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0 pointsbaxtr1mo ago0 comments

Downvotes might happen because your comment reads one-sided.

What about Russia blocking sites?

As of late 2025 and early 2026, Russia has blocked numerous foreign communication, social media, and information services, restricting platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram (partially), Signal, Viber, FaceTime, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Many independent news, VPN services, and foreign websites (e.g., Chess.com) are also inaccessible

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ajsnigrutin1mo ago

But that's my point exactly.... do you consider this to be a good thing? Should EU behave the same as russia or iran? Should those two countries be an "excuse" for us to do it too (hey! russia does it too!)? Should the police in eg. Brussles start shooting at protesting farmers and say "what about iran, they're killing their protesters too!"?

If we consider russia bad for doing those blocks above, then we should consider EU being bad when they do it for us.

baxtrOP1mo ago

Then it's a misunderstanding and I had misread your original comment.

Of course we should not ban anything in the West.

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