Brother Kane37After the news with meta - you may probably find this … educational <br>Russia is a right-wing tyranny. And it has one of the most strict censorship laws and sophisticated block systems around the globe. Alongside with Iran, North Korea and China. But censorship in Russia as it is today was not created quickly. It was a long process with several steps. I won’t write about laws , though they are completely insane, but write more about the system itself. At first Putin initiated criminal cases against owners of TV channels (NTV), also bought a lot of owners and editors of other tv channels, while getting rid of the rest.<br>Then there was a little opening when internet has become popular and authorities ignored it for a time being. This opening was not due to lack of will of the state to ban, but just because the internet was a new thing, unknown to government.<br> After 2011 protests authorities realized their mistake and began attacks on the internet. At first – site blocks, then a pressure on social networks. Vk owner Durov had to sell it to Putin’s friend and oligarch Usmanov back then. After this, Durov became much smarter - Telegram decryption methods were given to FSB almost immediately, with dumb PR campaign made for users, that it is actually fighting blocks (in reality it is not). Then several criminal cases against bloggers. Then big criminal case and block of bloggers/politicians – Navalny and co.<br>Then a closing of a last liberal radio Echo Moskvi (echo of Moscow), slowing, banning and blocking several big international social media sites – like YouTube, Facebook and twitter X and creating of several lists for all bloggers with over 10 000 viewers on all platforms. These lists are used for controlling revenue from blogs. If you are not in the list – no revenue for you. If you are in a list of foreign agents (that is a bad guy for regime) – your revenue may be blocked without any notice any time.<br>After all this - What content is in Russia now? - most of the media in Russia has the same content. And this content is basically sent from FSB or President apparatus – so everything is the same everywhere. It is death-cult propaganda, which suits interests of billionaires right now. When Putin start a war with Ukraine – hate Ukrainians, when Putin started a war against Georgia – hate Georgians etc. If no war happening – hate the West and LGBTQ. All messages are the same. And most of the popular bloggers are getting paid from the state. And that means that quality of this content is going down and down as time goes by. Basically they are paying for 1 hour video everyday, that must revolve around a topic that is given from regime. Just think about quality of this. Right now some propagandists are just coughing on camera to kill some time, others – cursing for 15 minutes straight trying to drag those long minutes, some, who is writing pro-Kremlin articles in TG channels are doing completely senseless sentences like “words are needed for reading” to get required number of words. If you want to imagine this in US – it is like take your Joe Rogan guy and then suck his brain out and keep him all the time under some drugs, talking about dangers for US Evangelists from transgender cartel communists from Panama channel and this theme will be used for 6 month straight no less. Imagine how dumb it will become almost immediately.<br>After Musk bought Twitter and Meta is going to change its moderation – It looks a little like a “Durov selling his social media to Usmanov and give decryption keys of TG to FSB” step. So somewhere in the middle. I don’t think that it will be needed to attack TV channels and streaming services, but who knows. Next step probably will be list of bloggers with over 10k views. And if you are not in the list – then no revenue for you at all. And will left-leaning bloggers get into the list? – probably not.<br>Bloggers are content creators, and as most creators - they have big egos. People with big egos can be bought easily. Big money has strings attached to it. And when creator turns into puppet - his content quickly becomes dumb and repetitive. 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