[pdog]

How is RT at all comparable to the CIA? Even if you accept the premise that RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service.

[davesque]

Why would you not accept that premise? The fact that RT is a propaganda channel is widely known.

[cycrutchfield]

So your argument is that a foreign propaganda entity is preferable to a domestic intelligence agency?

[pdog]

Yes? I hope it's not controversial to say that doing business with a television network is fundamentally different from cooperating with an intelligence agency.

[virgilp]

Referring to RT as "a television network" is as accurate as saying that Mar-a-Lago is "a privately-owned club". Technically accurate, but knowingly misleading (attempts to present as "irrelevant" what is actually the most relevant bit of information about said TV network/ private club)

[cycrutchfield]

Key words here are foreign and domestic.

[aplummer]

Isn’t your point like saying you can sell to the army because they aren’t the CIA?

[pheldagryph]

How does one determine that two things are different, or similar, without comparing them?

> RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service

I wonder if there are National Security Letters and FISA courts (or something comparable) in Russia.

[086421357909764]

Given the pervasiveness of SORM deployment across ISPs and tech companies within russia, it maybe that a letter like system is not even required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM