I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?

  • admiralteal@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    RT is literally state controlled. It has no independence. It operates in literally the same offices as RIA Novosti.

    You are out of your mind if you are trying to claim they are anything other than state TV by any meaningful definition.

    • xor@infosec.pub
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      10 months ago

      they were state funded but not controlled back then, they’ve been slowly adding on censorship laws… not every human in russia is this super evil, red-scare, diabolical agent plotting against your freedom…
      they were, very recently, much freer and more democratic… putin has slowly been turning it back into a dictatorship
      see also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        You’re full of it. From the time they were founded, they operated in the same building as RIA Novosti. RT didn’t exist until AFTER the various independent journalists and their associations were ALREADY being rounded up and cast out of Russian society.

        They are now and have always been state-controlled. Stop apologizing for dictatorships.

          • admiralteal@kbin.social
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            10 months ago

            RT was founded in 2005.

            By 2008 they were parroting clearly-bullshit Russian talking points about Georgia in the 2008 war.

            World Tomorrow aired in 2012.

            You. Are. Full. Of. It.

        • xor@infosec.pub
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          10 months ago

          cool how they played all those advertisements for freeee…
          cool how NBC is 100% controlled by their advertisers…
          cool how funding =/= control

          • magnetosphere@kbin.social
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            10 months ago

            You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.

            I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.

            • xor@infosec.pub
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              10 months ago

              100%? That’s 100% control.

              is not innocently asking questions.
              but it does not matter.
              even if RT was 100% a puppet and they employed assange to interview people and speak truth, that doesn’t make him a russian asset
              it was one of the least significant things he ever did in his long career… and he had some really good interviews…