Posted on 11/13/2022 11:22:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5
In many places, searching the web is a gateway to a wider world of information, but in Russia, it is part of a system that helps trap people in an alternative reality.
Shortly after 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in June, Lev Gershenzon - a former manager at Russian tech company Yandex - typed the city's name into its search engine to find out more.
The results he got back shocked him.
"The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure," he told the BBC. "There was one blog by an unknown author claiming that the information about casualties was fake."
The Kremlin keeps a tight grip on the country's media, especially TV, which glorifies Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a mission of liberation and dismisses reports of atrocities as fake.
The internet in Russia was for a long time the main space for alternative sources of information, but after starting the war in February the Kremlin launched a crackdown on independent online media.
Digital rights watchdog Roskomsvoboda estimates that - in the first six months of the conflict - nearly 7,000 websites were blocked in Russia, including those of major independent media and human rights groups.
Our experiment BBC Monitoring wanted to find out what people in Russia see when they search the web now.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The world was a better place without the internet.
God, that must be awful to not be able to trust their internet search results not to conform to the government line. We are so lucky we have Google and YouTube carefully ensuring we only hear the truth. /s
"The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure," he told the BBC. "There was one blog by an unknown author claiming that the information about casualties was fake."And if one googles such things as HOMOSEXUALITY and the BIBLE on Google and the like, then top searches (at least) are mostly those denying its condemnation.
And ignore this.
Why? Because it was easier for totalitarian governments to control the flow of information?
If you think the internet makes it harder to control the flow of information, you are greatly mistaken.
Like when I do COVID-19 vaccine dangers searches on ALL major browsers in the US. All I find are pro-vaccine sites by the 1000s talking about how safe and effective they are…
Google does this here to control the narrative and bury dissent
But that’s alright. It gets plenty of exposure on Free Republic.
People like yourself who endlessly trumpet the official Russian point of view are being censored? How’s that since here you are?
“People like yourself who endlessly trumpet the official Russian point of view are being censored? How’s that since here you are?”
Hey Captain Obvious, FR is not censoring us for having an opposing non-pro-Ukrainian viewpoint.
But be assured, if you clowns were in charge and running things in FR, we would have already been censored long ago. :duh:
Then you’re not being censored so don’t claim victimhood when no one bothers to oppress you.
No one is claiming victimhood here but you.
Again, be assured, Drama Queen, if you clowns were in charge and running things in FR, we would have already been censored long ago. :duh:
You, on the other hand, are spewing the Biden regime's propaganda here. It's a lie like everything else the comes out of this regime.
You are absolutely numbskull not to see that war in Ukraine, as Biden advisor Brian Deese openly said, is about defending the "liberal world order". The "liberal world order" is comprised of our political elite (including the Bidens and Clintons) and rich, globalists like George Soros and the creeps in the WEF.
And, if you think I'm back off one inch, think again. You neocons make me ill.
You contradict yourself in your same post. You say I claim victimhood and then accuse me of hypothetically victimizing you.
I don’t expect you to back off. Just saying your claims of censorship ring hollow.
But feel free to write more posts about how you’re so oppressed.
It makes you seem like a whiny snowflake and if that’s what you want then I will not object.
That statement is just plain wrong.
What kind of patriot of Russia? Not at all. Of America? It’s my duty to disbelieve them. Of Israel? Not going to break my teeth trying to understand newspaper Hebrew. Talmud, Bible, Chassidic tracts are my kind of Hebrew. All the politicians suck, some more than other.
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