Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta were recognized as such that spread and supported Russian propaganda and the war against Ukraine.
And if everyone had common sense an anarchist society would be possible. We have laws, that are inherently authoritarian, to make society work because society is too stupid to function without. To quote men in black “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it”.
In that sense I don’t see an issue with protecting your impressionable morons from deliberate foreign state propaganda.
So what’s the alternative? Deliberately create a classist structure where you have a voting class and non-voting class of citizens? Seems like a worse idea than the current one. Democracy is not perfect, but it’s the best we have.
Also worth mentioning that if your own political party decides to feed people populist shit then that’s the country shooting themselves in the foot. When a foreign entity does the same things that’s no longer shooting yourself in the foot, that’s someone wanting you to shoot you in the foot.
And if everyone had common sense an anarchist society would be possible. We have laws, that are inherently authoritarian, to make society work because society is too stupid to function without. To quote men in black “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it”.
In that sense I don’t see an issue with protecting your impressionable morons from deliberate foreign state propaganda.
Ah yes, the unenlightened peasants cannot be trusted to form their own opinions. In fact, why let them vote at all?
That wasn’t said. Pretending a crazy summary was said is a common fallacy.
So what’s the alternative? Deliberately create a classist structure where you have a voting class and non-voting class of citizens? Seems like a worse idea than the current one. Democracy is not perfect, but it’s the best we have.
Also worth mentioning that if your own political party decides to feed people populist shit then that’s the country shooting themselves in the foot. When a foreign entity does the same things that’s no longer shooting yourself in the foot, that’s someone wanting you to shoot you in the foot.