Don't even know why I'm posting this.....is it fake news??? You tell me....please.

[a kennedy]

Almost two-thirds of Russians support Internet censorship, a report by independent pollster the Levada Center revealed Friday.

Some 60 percent of those surveyed said that they felt online censorship was “necessary,” while 25 percent disagreed, the Interfax news agency reported.

Forty-four percent of respondents also disagreed with the idea that restrictions on certain sites could be used to infringe civil liberties. Thirty-two percent said that legislation could be used against activists or to restrict rights.

An overwhelming 90 percent said that they trusted news distributed by Russia's main news channels, while 73 percent saw the Internet as a credible source of information.


https://themoscowtimes.com/news/60-of-russians-support-internet-censorship-poll-56203

[virtualobserver]

1. the Putin effect

No Russian can truly know if they are being polled in a truly anonymous fashion

[Raster]

2. seriously? Even if Russians citizens believed differently...

1. It would NEVER BE REPORTED; and
2. And they would NEVER SPEAK OUT.

For all practical purposes, Russia and citizen freedoms has degraded back to the old Soviet/KGB days. People are being disappeared. No one believes their privacy is secure. And everyone has learned, yet again, to fear the state security apparatus.

Which brings us to Vladimir Putin.

Putin was, in essence, raised in the KGB and climbed through the ranks to the highest levels. Putin is a KGB man through-and-through, and now wields tremendous power, and has accumulated an outrageous fortune, all on the backs of Russian citizens.

So yes, this article is about as fake as it gets. It's called PROPAGANDA.

[LisaL]

3. Russia had a long history of monarchy.

Basically, a dictator is what Russia is used to.

[Raster]

4. Absolutely, and Putin sees himself as a new Tsar for a new Russian Era.

[a kennedy]

6. Thank you.......I kinda thought so.....now days.....I'm just not sure anymore

that up really is down, and white really is black, and the Russian people love and believe their leaders.

[Raster]

7. That is what they want you to believe... it's called "disinformation."

The Russians are MASTERS of дезинформация, transliterated as dezinformatsiya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

Disinformation is intentionally false or misleading information that is spread in a calculated way to deceive target audiences. The English word, which did not appear in dictionaries until the late-1980s, is a translation of the Russian дезинформация, transliterated as dezinformatsiya. Disinformation is different from misinformation, which is information that is unintentionally false. Misinformation can be used to define disinformation — where disinformation is misinformation that is purposefully and intentionally disseminated in order to defraud.

Usage of the term related to a Russian tactical weapon started in 1923, when the Deputy Chairman of the KGB-precursor the State Political Directorate (GPU) called for the foundation of "a special disinformation office" for clandestine operations. The term was used in 1939, related to a "German Disinformation Service". Ion Mihai Pacepa, senior official from the Romanian secret police, said the word was coined by Joseph Stalin and used during World War II. In the book, Disinformation, Pacepa wrote Stalin gave the tactic a French-sounding name in order to put forth the ruse that it was actually a technique used by the Western world. Soviet intelligence used the term maskirovka to refer to a combination of tactics including disinformation, simulation, camouflage, and concealment.

Disinformation saw wider use as a term of Soviet tradecraft, defined in the 1952 official Great Soviet Encyclopedia as spreading "false information with the intention to deceive public opinion." As a result of the defections of KGB officers, more information about disinformation campaigns came to light during the late 1960s through the 1980s. Examples of prominent disinformation campaigns included the fraudulent publication in 1968 of Who's Who in the CIA, and Operation INFEKTION, a widespread attempt to influence world opinion to believe that the United States invented AIDS.

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[herding cats]

5. Here's why.

Over 1 million Russians could be surveillance targets by year's end
Russian activists claim Moscow is drastically expanding its electronic eavesdropping at home. A new report alleges the country's wiretapping efforts on its own citizens have doubled in recent years.

Over a million Russians could soon have their phone conversations monitored by the government, according to data released by Russian political activists. In the first Russian-language edition of "The Red Web: The Struggle between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries" published Friday in Moscow, investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan allege the number of wiretap requests granted by Russian courts has doubled in the last eight years.
The journalists say records published by the Russian court system show that between 2007 and 2015, the number of court-sanctioned eavesdropping operations climbed from 265,937 to 539,964. Other activists claim the number could be much higher. Figures published by journalist Oleg Solmanov earlier this month indicate that almost 1 million Russian citizens were wiretapped so far this year.

http://www.dw.com/en/over-1-million-russians-could-be-surveillance-targets-by-years-end/a-36113272

They're not willing to risk speaking ill of Putin's oppression.

[Warpy]

8. Everybody likes their own porn

but that stuff other people watch is disgusting and should be censored. What will we tell the children if it's not?

I think you'd get the same result here in the US for the same reason.