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by ClumsyPilot 2430 days ago
> You do realize that saudi arabia, china, russia, etc all have laws in place to hold newspaper editors responsible for printing "truth" right?

We don't have any laws on the books in Russia that forbid newspapers from telling lies I am willing to bet neither does China or Saudi, because that's not needed for authoritarian censorship.

Boris Nemtsov got shot in broad daylight in the centre of Moscow. They don't need laws