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by softcactus
1378 days ago
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I see value in it too. Russia was a safe haven for US leftists and civil rights advocates during the 20th century. But they see no actual value in the speech they are protecting outside of 'trolling the US' for lack of a better term (at least after the fall of the USSR). |
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1) Snowden's reveal of PRISM and more generally the reveal that the government could access almost any text message sent to or from America took the idea of the surveillance state out of the land of theory and made people aware just how widely the state was into practice.
2) Yandex providing search engines not filtered through the bubble of this is misinformation, do not attempt to research this was useful enough to actually find the heart of the claims about things like, say ivermectin. Did the ivermectin pushers meet their burden of proof? No. Is it useful to drown out the original claims with half paragraph blurbs from a state presser, and lazy, toothless rebuttals from cnn.com that are so poorly framed that they do a better job shilling the drug than the actual shills? Also no.
3) Archiving and making public content that powerful entities don't want public is an extremely valuable, if risky service. It's unfortunate that we are in the position of a single person like Josh Moon being the bulwark between New Zealand and its citizens, but I certainly think he provided value. I personally can't afford to take that risk any more, so I feel the need to support those who can.