>Free speech and access to information gives Europe a competitive advantage
This man (Jacob Mchangama) is a legal scholar from Denmark and leader of “Justia” a thinktank for civil liberties. He is arguing against shutting down RT because it will just give Putin ammonition to do the same in Russia to our news (as he already did).
Also he thinks our citizens in Europe, most anyway knows better than to trust them.
Also it gives researchers and our intelligence an eye into the Kremlin mind.
>While sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs and the kleptocratic infrastructure of Russia’s economy should be expanded, European democracies should be careful not to copy and paste Putin’s censorship tactics.
I agree.
Remember Article 10 in the ECHR protects our freedom of press and speech. We must guard it. This could not happen in the US because of their greater first amendment.
“Once the centralised command and control of media freedom […] based on inherently vague definitions of “propaganda” and “disinformation” has been established, the danger is that it will almost inevitably be used to target other forms of undesirable information in the future.”
I agree
Banning the propaganda machine of a geopolitical opponent that uses it to undermine your society’s cohesion is not immoral, reprehensible or comparable to censoring/banning independent media platforms, it’s common sense.
Fighting with soviet propaganda poisoning Western societies requires soviet methods.
They should shut down that other Russian outlet, FoxNews, too.
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can you imagine a pro-Nazi newspaper, let’s say Völkischer Beobachter, being allowed to circulate in allied countries in 1942? Cause that is what you are asking for.
Marcellus in Hamlet was right.
Free speech applies to individuals and freedom of press to free press. RT is neither of those things.
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>Free speech and access to information gives Europe a competitive advantage
This man (Jacob Mchangama) is a legal scholar from Denmark and leader of “Justia” a thinktank for civil liberties. He is arguing against shutting down RT because it will just give Putin ammonition to do the same in Russia to our news (as he already did).
Also he thinks our citizens in Europe, most anyway knows better than to trust them.
Also it gives researchers and our intelligence an eye into the Kremlin mind.
>While sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs and the kleptocratic infrastructure of Russia’s economy should be expanded, European democracies should be careful not to copy and paste Putin’s censorship tactics.
I agree.
Remember Article 10 in the ECHR protects our freedom of press and speech. We must guard it. This could not happen in the US because of their greater first amendment.
“Once the centralised command and control of media freedom […] based on inherently vague definitions of “propaganda” and “disinformation” has been established, the danger is that it will almost inevitably be used to target other forms of undesirable information in the future.”
I agree
Banning the propaganda machine of a geopolitical opponent that uses it to undermine your society’s cohesion is not immoral, reprehensible or comparable to censoring/banning independent media platforms, it’s common sense.
Fighting with soviet propaganda poisoning Western societies requires soviet methods.
They should shut down that other Russian outlet, FoxNews, too.
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can you imagine a pro-Nazi newspaper, let’s say Völkischer Beobachter, being allowed to circulate in allied countries in 1942? Cause that is what you are asking for.
Marcellus in Hamlet was right.
Free speech applies to individuals and freedom of press to free press. RT is neither of those things.