How Russia Is Stopping You From Knowing What It Doesn't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The law doesn't only impact traditional media. Russia blocked access to Facebook and Twitter in retaliation for removing content by Russian-backed media outlets like Russia Today and Sputnik.
We dive into the troubling pattern of censorship in Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | One of, if not my best friend, we met several years ago playing video games online is from |
| 0:13.9 | a large city in the Russian Far East. |
| 0:16.4 | He doesn't usually follow politics much, but this has changed his perspective on it. |
| 0:23.6 | It's perked him up. |
| 0:24.9 | He's now looking for ways to get a work visa in other countries. |
| 0:29.7 | He's looking for ways to leave the country. |
| 0:32.6 | And I get the impression it's far from just him. |
| 0:35.4 | In Russia, you can now receive up to 15 years in prison for publicly opposing the war in |
| 0:41.1 | Ukraine or for even calling it a war to begin with. |
| 0:45.0 | That's according to a new censorship law that Kremlin passed on Friday. |
| 0:48.9 | It's part of a larger effort to control the narrative of the war inside and outside |
| 0:53.2 | of Russia. |
| 0:54.8 | The Russian news organizations, including the BBC, CBS and ABC, have suspended reporting |
| 1:00.3 | in Russia over safety concerns. |
| 1:02.5 | And a number of Russian independent news organizations have also seized operations. |
| 1:07.0 | And PR says it will continue to assess what the new law means for its operations in |
| 1:10.6 | the country. |
| 1:11.6 | The law doesn't only impact traditional media. |
| 1:14.7 | Russia blocked access to Facebook and Twitter in retaliation for removing content by the |
| 1:19.1 | Russian-backed media outlets Russia Today or RT. |
| 1:22.5 | The law doesn't only impact traditional media. |
| 1:25.8 | Russia blocked access to Facebook and Twitter in retaliation for removing content by the |
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