{"id":34083,"date":"2018-05-08T08:29:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34083"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:29:54","slug":"how-to-silence-rt-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34083","title":{"rendered":"How To Silence RT Forever\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Silence RT Forever\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Loyalists of the western empire have been growing increasingly honest about their desire to use censorship and propaganda in order to win an \u201cinformation war<\/a>\u201d against Russia.<\/p>\n

The other day we saw\u00a0a Guardian<\/em> article<\/a>\u00a0arguing for the necessity of a coordinated campaign by western governments to \u201ccombat Russian disinformation\u201d due to Russia\u2019s disinterest in \u201ccooperating to reach a common understanding of the truth\u201d, i.e. agree with unproven western accusations and capitulate to the longstanding western agendas those accusations are meant to advance.<\/p>\n

Before that, we saw a Defense One<\/em> article<\/a> authored by an Atlantic Council official arguing in favor of the creation of a \u201cNATO for Infowar\u201d to propagandize westerners against Russian interests for their own good. The author of this article went so far as to suggest that the Kremlin-backed television channel RT ought to be forbidden to air in western nations.<\/p>\n

It always comes back to RT. Because of the network\u2019s relatively high profile in comparison to other Russian media, it has been made into an ideal Emmanuel Goldstein for the empire\u2019s daily Two Minutes Hate<\/a>. RT is now so completely reviled by establishment loyalists that citing it in an online debate will be taken as an instant debunk of not just the point you were trying to make but of your entire position (and often your humanity itself by getting you labeled a \u201cRussian bot\u201d), even if your citation is comprised entirely of independently verifiable facts.<\/p>\n