RT asked to register as foreign agent - What about it's readers?

[rasputinn]

RT asked to register as foreign agent.
Reactions:

"Applying the FARA to RT [… ] demands disclosure of the channel’s confidential data, including the list of employees and their personal data. In the witch hunt atmosphere which has been established in the US, this provision may pose a real danger.”

“ This may lead to such restrictions that will simply prevent us from working in the country. This is the price of the praised freedom of speech."

Compounding this is a report by the think-tank the Atlantic Council, in which it is suggested that Poland target RT to deter a Russian invasion."

https://www.rt.com/news/404927-rt-foreign-agent-zakharova/


And most worrisome of all:likely tracking and registry of those americans who read Russia Today.

 

[MGurkus]

Something reeks of curry.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

Smells like donkey farts and curry in this thread.

 

[rasputinn]

WikiLeaks CIA Vault 7: 'We are looking at George Orwell’s 1984’


"Larry Johnson, retired CIA and State Department official said that “this material is significant in that it shows just how robust and how organized the CIA effort is, at least overseas, to be engaged with cyber activities.”“
Frankly, I think they should be, but we also recognize that other major powers are also doing the same thing, it provides a little bit, I guess, of spotlight into a dark area, that is normally not accessible to the public,”

Annie Machon, former MI5 intelligence officer: "Not computers, not phones, but on things like smart fridges, smart computers, that sort of thing, and smart televisions, as well. It is utterly feasible that all these devices have already been hacked and they are used to spy on us.”

We are looking at the George Orwell “1984” novel where we have screens in our flats potentially watching us.“However, back in those days (1990's), there was a notion of oversight, and there was a notion of targeted surveillance, which is what we need to prevent the bad guys doing bad things to us. And it was also very labor-intensive. Because of the massive expansion of the Internet and technology, now they can do it on the industrial scale, which is what they seem to have developed."

 

[ryan8558]

Something reeks of curry.

Smells like donkey farts and curry in this thread.

terms of endearment

 

[someoneyouknow]

Because Putin hasn't ordered anyone and everyone who isn't a Russian citizen to register or get out, including the Red Cross and NGOs.

The Russian trolls are thick on this thread, responding to themselves.

 

[wheres_the_beef]

And most worrisome of all:likely tracking and registry of those americans who read Russia Today.

You should get into track and field events. That's a world record long jump right there.

 

[nimrod98]

Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Electionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/technology/twitter-russia-election.html

Media spread fake news that Russia ‘hacked’ ‘election results’ — but here’s the truth http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/0...-hacked-election-results-but-heres-the-truth/


FIRST THIS

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AND NOW THIS

 

[nimrod98]

WikiLeaks CIA Vault 7: 'We are looking at George Orwell’s 1984’"

No need for force.
People will stop reading RT, or opposing the establishment by themselves.
Knowledge of being under surveillance and paranoia are a bigger motivation.

"Panopticism is a social theory in which behaviour could be modified, and Foucault viewed the panopticon as a symbol of the disciplinary society of surveillance.

.Although usually associated with prisons, the panoptic style of architecture might be used in other institutions with surveillance needs, such as schools, factories, or hospitals.

Foucault argues that Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon provides us with a model in which a self-disciplined society has been able to develop.

By individualizing the subjects and placing them in a state of constant visibility, it guarantees the function of power, even when there is no one actually asserting it.

These apparatuses of behavior control without the constant surveillance and intervention by an "agency" in every aspect of our lives."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticism

 

[colddiesel]

RT ? FARA ? CIA Vault7 Panopticon? WTF?

 

[renard_ruse]

I wonder where the free speech for the anthem protestors crowd are? Where's the free speech for RT?

This has gotten fucking ridiculous. Russia is a democratic country with a mostly market economy. Now, we can't even hear their perspective. Apparently the Russian perspective is illegitimate and to be dismissed as mere "propaganda." Its insane.

And what is this "foreign agent" crap? I thought we were part of an interdependent world now. Now we are xenophobic all of a sudden?

 

[renard_ruse]

Because Putin hasn't ordered anyone and everyone who isn't a Russian citizen to register or get out, including the Red Cross and NGOs...

Because they are actually trying to subvert the country.

RT is simply trying to give the Russian perspective which is completely censored and lied about by out MSM. And interestingly, on most non-Russia related issues, it mainly takes the same stance as the rest of the western liberal media. That's why I don't bother with it. Its like CNN except for Russia related issues. Its even taken pro-gay stances. I read that Russia gives them leaway to report how they want as long as they give the Russian perspective on Russia related issues.

I wonder if China's cable network or the other country's that have them will have to "register as agents." This whole thing is beyond stupid. The US has become a joke.

 

[renard_ruse]

Russia is The Last Hope for The World.

 

[Hypoxia]

Russia is The Last Hope for The World.

The Russian defense minister declared in Feb 2017 that Russia is waging war against the West (including USA) using "information troops." Russia is currently staging military operations against USA. You are promoting a declared enemy of USA currently waging war on us. You might want to look up the definition of 'treason'.