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I just contacted US Rep. David Trone, US Sen. Chris Van Hollen and US Sen. Benjamin Cardin, all Maryland Democrats, with the following message:
The European Union and Canada have just banned Russia Today from television there.
Can the U.S. do this too? I don't see why Russia Today, Sputnik and other Russian channels should be allowed to operate here while Russia has illegally invaded Ukraine.
This is a link to providers that show RT, including satellite and internet channels.
More providers at link.
Contact your provider if it's on this list and tell them to stop showing RT.
RT Cable and Satellite TV providers:
AGP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LLC
Buckeye CableSystem
Channel Master
Content Media Rights
DIRECTV
Dish Networks
NEXTV
ROKU
Spring City Cable
https://www.rt.com/where-to-watch/USA/
NewDayOranges
(691 posts)Disguised as a quiet, radio talkshow forum...
There are two stations going full blast here in Kansas City!
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)but I can't find a list of what carriers offer it - am researching. It's being done elsewhere. The EU just banned RT and Sputnik. Kosovo and Khazakh have banned some Russian channels.
Four Russian TV channels banned from Estonian airwaves
ERR
25.02.2022
The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) has ordered telecomms companies to end broadcasting four Russian, plus one Belarusian, TV channels on Estonian territory, on the grounds that they had been disseminating Kremlin propaganda, in the run-up to Thursday's military attack on Ukraine.
The channels are RTR Planeta, NTV Mir (including NTV Mir Baltic), Belarus 24, Rossia 24 and TV Center International.
https://news.err.ee/1608512162/four-russian-tv-channels-banned-from-estonian-airwaves
ERR is Estonia's public broadcasting station
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Or to drop that garbage.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to toxic influencers have a taste for their special ingredients, mixed into a nice bowl of fresh green word salad so they can claim to be there for the lettuce.
I think we need a national "no yelling fire in a crowded nation" law -- and special courts to administer it while protecting freedom of speech -- to limit dissemination of disinformation and of course political warfare by operations that reach audiences of a determined size or influence. That would allow RT, Fox, OANN, Sinclair Broadcasting, etc, to continue to serve their audiences their special mixes, but signficantly less toxic.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Right now!
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)Also ...
Oh, never mind. I'm working right now.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)I don't know a good term for it. Supplying?
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)Distributing or supplying is probably the right word. There used to be a channel in northern Virginia that showed Thom Hartmann on RT. The station gave up its license during the recent repacking of frequencies. I had stopped watching Thom Hartmann long before that.
The local station got the programming via satellite downlink, I guess, and would then send the signal out over the air.
I think there's an FM HD radio sub-channel in DC that is run by the Chinese. I'd have to check.
Anyway, who do you think will do this banning, and on what authority?
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)Customers can pressure can pressure cable and satellite distributors to drop the Russian channels
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)and we know of Bernie voters who were peeled off and voted for trump. Hartmann was at worst a tool that was duped.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/thom-hartmann-blog/
Thom had a show on RT for 7 years. He only left when DOJ wanted to list RT as a foreign agent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/20/rt-wants-to-spread-moscows-propaganda-here-lets-treat-it-that-way/
He still has a show that airs daily on Progressive networks and has fans here (who will tell me that Hartmann always had control of the content).
Don't listen to propagandists.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)JPR
Happy Hoosier
(7,068 posts)On what fucking planet was that ever a good idea?
It undermines my opinion of his basic decision-making skills.
And WTF was Bernie doing there?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)He shouldn't be listened to or carried on progressive programming.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)too stupid to know what they're part of is to do them great injustice. And so is not realizing they had to be very industrious to build their audiences. Greenwald, of course, still has a show on RT and is quoted often.
By definition, when Russian State TV spreads finds someone repeatedly useful, that person is a Russian asset. After that, my question is why does that person it? That would in many cases answer the question of whether that person could stop if he or she chose to.
MichMan
(11,778 posts)Progressive dog
(6,861 posts)bought Current TV.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts).
Verizon is fine pushing fascist material and disinformation.
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Marius25
(3,213 posts)They're literally no different than RT.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)Although I wish there was some approach that would pass Constitutional review
Marius25
(3,213 posts)treason and inciting violence and terrorism, which Fox does.
Fox News needs to be banned as does News Max and OANN.
AM Radio that broadcasts conservative (read Russian) misinformation needs to be banned.
I'll go further and we need to investigate the hosts and personnel who are profiting off of their Russian Propoganda. When we inevitable find that they are colluding with Russia they need to be tried publicly and imprisoned.
Keket,
You can be a good person or you can be a Republican. You can't be both.