[Shivetya]

don't worry, the US political system is doing similar but under the guise of "fake news" and "campaign finance reform".

what doesn't work one way can simply be done another when you convince enough people to be afraid

[Scipio_Afri]

The US political system absolutely is not doing that.

[mg794613]

Why is this person down voted so harshly? It's on topic. It's relevant and to my opinion even correct in mentioning this. Russia does it without shame in the open whereas the western (our) countries achieve this by scaring the people enough "they want it themselves". What's so wrong about that?

[vorpalhex]

Way to hijack a point to crow out a political charge.

[api]

Not even close. There is no network layer firewalling. Private platforms have kicked off offensive and BS content mostly to protect their market value to the majority of users.

[opwieurposiu]

Private platforms censor to appease the advertisers, not the users.

[aaomidi]

Which is appeasing the users indirectly.