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According to Borrell, Moscow is manipulating information and using the press as a weapon, which is why the ban is necessary.
Written by Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant.
It seems increasingly clear that the EU’s main commitment is not to defend its own liberal values, such as democracy and freedom, but to attack Russia by all possible means. On February 7, Josep Borrel, the head of European diplomacy, made it clear that he supports a ban on Russian media and that he sees the measure as a way of defending freedom of expression. With this, he makes it clear that for the European bloc, Russia is an enemy and the opinions of journalists from Moscow must be censored.
Borrell’s words were presented during a press conference dedicated to the topic of European responses to “Russian disinformation”. Despite heading EU’s foreign affairs, Borrell has been characterized by extremely problematic and anti-diplomatic postures in his anti-Russian militancy. This time he claimed that censoring Russians would be defending freedom of expression rather than attacking it.
“In doing that, we are not attacking the freedom of expression, we are just protecting the freedom of expression (…) [We see] manipulation and interference as a crucial [Russian] instrument (…) We need to understand how these disinformation campaigns are organized (…) to identify the actors of the manipulation”, he said.
The official advocated maximizing anti-Russian sanctions as a way to prevent Russian and pro-Russian press agencies from operating within the EU. In fact, this type of policy has already been adopted through measures such as the blocking of bank accounts of Russian newspapers in Europe, preventing the press from functioning, as has happened with Russia Today in France recently. Without money, agencies cannot maintain their activities and so the Russian media is suffocated through direct economic blackmail. Apparently, in Borrell’s opinion, this is absolutely legal and recommendable.
However, not only did Borrell openly advocate anti-Russian censorship, but he also made it clear that the EU works for the growth of the dissident press within the Russian Federation. Borrell said that Europe cooperates with anti-Russian media outlets “in practical terms”, but declined to give details on the matter, making the case even more suspicious.
“What I’m saying is not just rhetoric. I cannot go into detail, but believe me, we try to support them in practical terms”, he said, adding that he could not comment on this in order not to do these media agencies “a bad favor”. Indeed, it sounds like a suggestion that EU operates illegal activities in the interior of Russia.
Despite maintaining broad freedom of expression and allowing media activities by the political opposition, the Russian government has established a limit between what is free speech and what is foreign subversive activity. Being a country under attack by NATO’s Ukrainian proxy and dealing daily with attempts of sabotage and terrorism, Moscow has made an effort to fight speeches that directly attack national security, even if it does so with balance with the protection of freedom of expression.
In fact, by suggesting that he is helping anti-Russian groups inside Russia through secret schemes, Borrell is taking another step towards the absolute collapse of relations between Russia and Europe. The bloc’s foreign affairs chief seems to be simply admitting that he backs criminal activities within Russia, which certainly will not be accepted by Moscow, thus aggravating the hostility between the sides.
Commenting on Borrell’s impolite and irresponsible words, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that the attitudes of the EU against the Russian press are dictatorial, severely condemning Borrell’s position. She also compared the EU to the German Nazi regime, recalling how political maneuvers were used in the past to ban press freedom and persecute political opponents. According to her, the Russian people would again be fighting against this Nazi “misanthropic logic”.
“To justify the bans, the Nazis set fire to the Reichstag (government building), which allowed them to begin repressions against political opponents (…) Then they started burning books by objectionable authors. After that, an order was passed that every journalist of the Reich had to join the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) in order to continue a professional activity. Then all authorities were obliged to subscribe to the Nazi press (…) History is cyclical — today our people are again struggling with this misanthropic logic”, she said.
Undoubtedly, the European desire to ban Russian media shows that there is a fear of the truth. Only by censoring authentic journalists and reliable data it is possible to keep alive the Western disinformation machine, which continues to spread unsubstantiated narratives such as “Ukrainian victory” and “Russian government’s unpopularity”. Without listening to the other side, the European people are induced to believe in Western big media outlets, thus not having any room for debate or freedom of speech in Europe.
These people are a joke by now, and Borrell is clearly no less delusional than the rest of the top branch of western politicians. Anyways, they always talked about a trickle down effect, and that’s pretty clear as well.
You are absolutely right what a wasted people the leaders of the EU are with few exceptions It’s only a matter of before they self implode. I can’t wait for that to happen people like Borrell need to die and go away the sooner the better.
More like the Cabals are throwing tantums as Russia exposed their games.
“trickle down effect”
Or the mirror effect, when a criminal accuses others in own crimes. Anglosaxons are well known for this method. Take recent hysteria over the balloon — they are using real spy balloons much more, last one was launched over Russia in 1983th and still in use over countries with weak AAD. They tell to China to show respect to international laws? First thing to do is to prove it really was a spying tool, but lying western media don’t need any proofs. Where are “poisoned” Scripals? What proofs can be shown, if they downed the balloon over a sea? It’s like the hoax with bin Laden’s body. In the same time MSM are completely not interested in who blew the “Nord stream 2” up, because it’s obvious – anglosaxons did it, but controlled MSM and their masters want to ignore this theme.
Anglosaxons do not exist. It is a myth. They are extinct. It is just hicks and libtards living there and masquarading and faking substance when they are just hot air like in that balloon. Do they have awards for the most infantile acting? Do they have a competition who does the most imbecile thing?
It is AgitProp, not MSM. Stop listening to AgitProp directions and do your own stuff.
АгитПроп:
1. Propaganda – propagation of talking points (sociology constructed ideology bullshit) and propagation of diretions for agitators.
2. Agitation – agitation of emotions in laymen (lame+men) by agitators.
Aha, it’s “the myth” bombed many countries, sure. Anglosaxons = all population of England, US, Australia, Canada, NZ and smaller territories like Jersey where europoid/caucasian population speak english as native language. Sorry, didn’t read the rest, because the beginning is nonsense.
These sewer rats, servants of the masters in Washington, are without honor, without shame, without dignity. Vulgar bandits of the second order and sold for a few dollars. They are miserable, disgusting. Luckily they are about to come to a bad end. Their negativity it is so concentrated that misfortune is unleashed against them. Soon the Revolt will begin…….. it will be terrible.
Agree with you in everything, but not in the part of revolt. Who will start it? Revolution must be sponsored (in the most cases from abroad). Any unorganized uprising is doomed and will be drown in blood. So my advice to all people with brains is to leave this new Sodom and move to Russia, South America, China or any adequate place. But i have some doubts in S.America, because they are starting to adopt laws about all that gender filth.
I thank you. I am confident in positive forces of nature. A System like that of the bandit masters of America is a loser, therefore we need to be prepared ………………. If Fidel fooled the bandits “under their noses” as he said, there is all the more reason to hope. A news of the last few days, the Wagner Group has said that it intends to help the countries under the American yoke to free themselves……
Corrupt person, corrupt EU
Nechápem ako môže matička zem nosiť takýchto idiotov!!!
Yup, empty Borrells rumbles the most. He is right now, an entire amusement park alone, what in hell is this moron thinking, uh… wrong word maybe, more like the total lack of any real cognitive capasity and belives the western fairy tale about Ukraina, their very own idiot propaganda, and manages in just one centense to make an statement and contradicts it straight away, clapp, clapp, clapp, gooood doggy. Have some ah…. cockies, darling.
i follow RT from Spain. They can not control internet
One has to wonder about how many children they have in photographs with the european leadership that they all roll over like the cowards they are.
Thousands I would think, Isser Harel.
Banning any media that tells the truth and supports Russia is good, the West can’t have any type of media to do that. It’s what is called Free Media in the West!
The more you block, the more freedom you get + “European Peace Fund” to sponsor war. That’s why “1984” is the most popular book of 2022.
1984 is overrrated. It is more like wet dreams of libtards, hicks and niggers that will never materialize.
I bet you haven’t read it. It is reality of the west now.
I bet you haven’t read it. It is reality of the west now.
Borell is a bought and paid for Khazar twat. With few exceptions, all the NATO and EU/ UK charlatans are all muppet puppets.
If censoring the russians is the only thing keeping some 60 EU parliamentarians out of prison on corruption charges I guess I would be worried about what got published too especially if I was one of the 60 lol
This is a 100 year old comedy and propaganda site, Europeans being afraid of the truth coming from Russia is the joke of the day for Kremlin employees, Russia is pure fascism, they behave like 21st century Nazis but call Nazis Ukrainians…
obviously NATO populationcolonized submissive are too stupid to recognize truth
I find the utterances of this Mr. Borrel fabulous, hilarious and surreal. He admits they see manipulation and interference as a ‘crucial instrument’ and then legitimizes censorship as ‘defending freedom of expression’.
This EU-NATO-US empire seeks to ‘create it’s own reality’ at the expense of Russia, of the truth and the world in reality. Its ‘a bit rich’ from people with a lot of debt.
And they do NOT believe in freedom, let alone freedom of expression, or freedom of information, or in a free market for information. Day in, day out, they torture and threaten Julian Assange just to remind us all of that!
Assange is not even the US citizen to trial him, but it’s meaningless detail for totalitarianism.
The problem is that it’s not at the expense of Russia in any way. It’s at the expense of their own naive, brainwashed population. Who have to live in this bubble of endless confusion. Noone in Russia is forced to remind himself that a man is a woman every day before going to work, so he doesn’t accidentaly say that 2+2=4 and looses his job, his family abandons him and the newspapers print huge articles about the horrible transphobe Kulak who doesn’t believe in the values of the revolution.
It is a sad day, when every day we see the western leaders indeed did read Orwell’s ‘1984’ but somehow now see it as something to accomplish and even embellish instead of seeing it as a warning.
In another way rather ironical to see how the so-called ‘free western world’ now is ruled by deception and censorship by unelected bureaucrats, while the core of the once repressive USSR now seems to rise as a champion of freedom and honesty. Makes me wonder how hard it would be to move to Russia
this is normal in dumbmark—we slaves must pay 65% income tax, donate weapon to nazi ukraine or be sodomized by senile Brandon—dane happiness is anti-depressant in submissive US colony
Ha-ha-ha, this variant of Jensy is far better.
He also said that EU helps to “right defenders” inside Russia, i.e. spying network of well-known russophobes such as “Moscow Helsinki group” or “Memorial” (closed at last, and I’m happy), that’s why he refused to tell their names, because it can harm them. Of course, it could interrupt their sabotage, because their infogarbage dumps are closed or fled to Pribaltica by own will, but they are free to create new ones or act as “independent” journalists. Our laws are so mild, and all they need is to mark their publications with “written by foreign agent”, if they have money from foreign sponsors such as embassies, funds (NED, Soros’) and media dumps as VoA (state sponsored by the way). This is not enough, they should be treated as spies, if they are taking money from aggressor. This aggressor has closed any rus. news channels, blocks people in social networks for many years, treat own citizens as criminals, if they disagree with totalitarian policy. I know several cases with citizens of France and Germany when their bank accounts are closed even before trial, sometimes with accounts of relatives. They received many threats via e-mail from hohols and locals, threaten in real life with a shot gun in post box. Their only “fault” is coming to Donbas and filming what is going on here. Adrien Bocquet was attacked with knife by hohols (or their agents) in Turkey. Alina Lipp have a criminal case opened against her in Germany. Members of german parliament from opposition parties marked by MSM as agents of Putin. Totalitarianism has thrown off the mask of democracy.
They can’t argue with facts and prefer to block them. There is simple fact you can’t argue with –ukronazis are shelling Donetsk almost every day since 2014. Their western pimps are whining that hohols are using too much shells to replace them in short terms, but they always have some shells for murdering people in schools and hospitals of Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka and other cities, some of buildings were shelled twice. They murdered hundreds of kids. And what western MSM do? Full silence about that. Even “free” “encyclopedia” is censored and gives perverted version about the Alley of angels. But you can’t say something against dead kids, so need to silence all voices who tells about genocide in Donetsk or Odessa. Nazist gardener Borrell need to cut a lot of branches to raise the tree of lies.
There is no censorship in US. Police do not arrest people for talk. Nobody in Federal, State or Local government does that. Talk what the fuck you want. Libtards, hicks and niggers get triggered immediately though. But apart of tantrums, bullying and hysteria they cannot do much.
It is the libtard activists, ballot stuffing politicians, Fake News, and zoomers with parasytes like Google, Fuckbook, Twatter and Instawhore doing the Cancel Culture. They also hijack politicized subject articles in Wikipedia.
No censorship, but Assange is arrested and RT is not allowed to broadcast.
Fuck that libtard whore Assange 😆
RT.com web site works fine in US. Stop lying.
Assange is not even a US citizen to trial him in the US, so this is pure kidnapping and torture.
“Russia-backed cable news station RT America shuts down” (CNBC)
“RT America Shuts Down” (“Bloomberg”)
“RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans” (vulture.com)
‘They were waiting for the moment to shut down RT America’ (“Global times”)
Get lost now, you are not Mexican Beaner, but el stupido like that stupid “crazy canuck”.
He and hid US masters have lost their F__king minds. I here Macron in his WEF, young leadership role tell Zelensky they can win and take back their territory. This a desperate sociopathic statement from he and his handlers; without saying just that would induce a nuclear war. How in hell can these idiots so non shallantly put the rest of the planet at full nuclear risk???
in dumbmark freedom of speech is mulatto lgbt and burning koran
USSA has the living dead idiot construct “the Joe Biden” and not to be out done the evil EUSSR has the old geriatric fart “the Joe Borell”. No wonder the disgusting angloZionaZi empire of shit is getting flushed.
Onward to Natostan sewer Brussels.
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Very good! We must despise and offend these scum. They must die!
Josep Borrell would be recognized by Orwell. He is one of the most notorious spin-doctors for Big Brother. He must be related to Goebbels . . .
Borrell dice : ” LA CENSURA DE LOS MEDIOS PROTEGE LA “LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN” OK… Ok…. entonces : ¿ que tal ” Follar como protección a la virginidad…” ? Digo…. no sé…. me parece… o sea…. bhaaaa.. !!!
An inferior expresses only inferior concepts.
Wonder when will china get the green light to supply Wagner with musical instruments….???
Borrell must now recite nonsense to his followers to conceal the truth of what must be much worse than what they know or even suspect.
Fortunately he does not know truth. Matriarchy is dead. Look at him. He looks 100+ years old and babbling nonsense.
How did Europe end up being run by such creatures? Cowardice and gender benders. Enjoy your animal farm