This new EU court ruling is part of an anti-democratic epidemic spreading around so-called 'liberal democracies'
  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    In case anyone actually cares: The (original first instance) ruling is from a small-ish local court in Germany, and the people in question re-posted the RT video on their website which is a comercial enterprise. this is the reason they got hit with the ruling, because the law is targeting comercial entities that carry or reproduce RT misinformation. If they had posted it to twitter, facebook or even their private non-comercial website/blog/whatever, there would have been no problem (besides marking themselves as guillable dum-dums. (if posted to twitter/facebook/insta, it would have been the resposibility of them to remove/block the video/content)

    source: i read the court document, like anyone can who can click a link on the original (mis-representative) twitter post.

    fun fact: i posted this as a reply to the lemmy ml post of this yesterday, and my comment was deleted and i was banned by mods. I guess they don’t like people who tell the truth over there.

    • DdCno1@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      The far-left still defending the now far-right Moscow never ceases being funny. The Soviet Union ceased to exist 35 years ago, but old habits die hard, I suppose.

      It’s the same with them and China, which is similarly far-right.

      • Fluke@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        Their reasoning being: because Russia is currently allies with communist states, by invading Ukraine they’re helping communism “fight the imperialist west”.

        Like all good propaganda, there’s a kernel of truth in there, buried real deep in the bullshit. However, they’re doing nothing useful by stanning for Russia, especially given Russia are now very much on the back foot.