They aren't silenced. If you want to read/watch RT content it's all available online.
But what they wouldn't do is let Joyce broadcast using a transmitter *in Britain*. So it's actually pretty much the same now as it was then - people who want to can get access, but we aren't giving them a platform on our doorstep.
No, why would we wilfully allow Russian propaganda?
Does it really seem as wrong as invading a country and murdering civilians? Really?
I’m sure the Russian police verdict will be comprehensive and unbiased, free from external influence.
Why would the Russian police be investigating an incident which occured in Spain ?
It's not unknown for foreign police to be involved in investigations when there's a high-profile victim or lots of public interest, and suspicious circumstances.
My mistake!
Three years or so ago I would have agreed with you.
Perhaps you could just do one to tin foil hat land where you live and leave the rest of us alone? Hope you are being paid for spouting the above.
I know its on line and frankly I don't watch RT these days.
That is a very pathetic remark.
But there wasn't on the main channels including the BBC. We were basically "brainwashed" into accepting the government strategy. Other scientists and medics who had a different opinion were silenced, sidelines or struck off.
And if the authorities wanted to they could block all access to RT online. The point is that they haven't. They aren't stopping people from accessing RT if they want to, they have just determined that RT isn't a suitable organisation to hold a broadcast licence.
Not so. If any Tom, Dick or Harry spouted their opinion, then where do the experts sit?
But who has the right to decide who is the expert and who is the crank>
I agree with that. But RT hasn't been silenced. I just loaded their website.
I hardly imagine their viewer base is substantial, and it just gives Russia a carte-blanche to censor the BBC or other international news organisations. It doesn't seem like we're gaining much, and we are giving Putin a legitimate excuse for his censorship.
Russia has banned all independent media and passed legislation that makes reporting anything other than the official state line punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
But when questioned about such things, they can now trot out "but the Brits did it first", and if history has shown one thing, Russia loves whatabouttery. Perhaps it would have been better for me to say "plausible excuse", if you catch my meaning.
My understanding is that two oligarchs have been found dead with family members on consecutive days (Monday and Tuesday). One was in Moscow and the other in Spain. Curious.
Unfortunately, on the matter of COVID, the field of expertise of many experts is at most tangential to the field of epidemiology. For example the Social Anthropologists like Devi Shrinhar been called upon to give their view on Epidemiology.
March 4th - BBC ‘blocked in Russia’ following Kremlin criticism
Your statement is correct, but misses the point. My argument is not substantiatively altered by such pedantry; we have ceded the moral high ground for minimal appreciable gain.
We have just discussed that their Broadcasting license was taken away. Putin can now deflect criticism by saying that "Britain has censored/blocked/shut down the tv channel/your-wording-here RT" to deflect any domestic or international criticism.
