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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The government has control over the news networks but it's not like you can't pull up western news in Yekaterinburg if you want to.
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People think that the internet is always free and available, with no controls or limits on how you can access it. The government in your country has a lot of say in how you get access to that stream of consciousness, and just how filtered it is. There are only so many ingress and egress points into the country, so managing those can be very easy. If the Chinese or North Koreans can do it, any nation on the planet can do it. Only our own ignorance prevents us from understanding this.
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Seems like a closer analogy would be like if during the Trump years, the only news channels on TV were various versions of Fox News and OANN.
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This is exactly the problem. The access to information is a bubble where there are different "media" sources, but the same information is just rebroadcast through different talking heads. It gives the impression of secondary sources, but the primary source remains the same - Putin's desired message.