The UK is forcing social media, internet service providers and app stores to block content from state-sponsored Russian media outlets – RT and Sputnik news agency. “For too long RT and Sputnik have churned out dangerous nonsense dressed up as serious news to justify Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,” Tech and …
Read More »Professor faces government crackdown for questioning Ukraine narrative
University of Edinburgh professor Tim Hayward is being hammered in the media for sharing an article suggesting the bombing of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol may have been staged by Ukrainian nationalists. Hayward’s skepticism has already led Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to promise a “crackdown” on such …
Read More »Texas border crackdown ruled unconstitutional
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s effort to secure his state’s border with Mexico amid record migrant flows has been thrown open to legal challenges after a judge found the Operation Lone Star program to be unconstitutional. The potentially pivotal ruling came on Thursday, when Travis County District Court Judge Jan Soifer …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky continues crackdown on critical media
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has continued his crackdown against dissent in the media by imposing a new set of restrictive measures against three companies that own opposition-aligned TV channels, it emerged on Tuesday. The sanctions take aim at channels UkrLive and First Independent, both of which are believed by the …
Read More »Germany’s crackdown on RT DE & how it might backfire
European service Eutelsat said on Wednesday that it had removed RT DE from its 9B satellite, which covers Central and Eastern Europe, and is especially popular among Germans. According to the company, it acted in response to advice from Berlin and the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA), …
Read More »China’s crackdown on the ‘spiritual opium’ of gaming is part of a big social revolution pitting collectivism against individualism
The scale of Xi Jinping’s social revolution intensifies every day, and nothing seems to be safe from its reach. To go alongside the dramatic reorganisation of private tutoring, the mauling of big tech and the campaign against celebrity culture, now the Chinese state is turning its sights towards what it …
Read More »Why does the crypto industry continue to grow amid global crackdown? Boom Bust finds out
RT’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai talk about the reasons for the crypto industry’s continued growth despite tighter regulation. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business section
Read More »Ukraine shuts down leading independent news site Strana as part of new crackdown on journalists, judges & opposition politicians
Strana.ua, one of the country’s best-known mainstream news sites, was unavailable on Friday after officials included both its parent company and its editor, Igor Guzhva, in a new tranche of restrictions. Network service providers began blocking access to its domains. However, in a statement posted online, its journalists said that …
Read More »China’s crackdown on Didi following its Wall St IPO shows that billionaires don’t run the show in Beijing – unlike in Washington
When a video of Mark Zuckerberg went viral on the internet showing the Facebook tycoon riding an electric surfboard while flying an American flag, it symbolized a great deal of sentiment around contemporary ‘big tech,’ as it is known. Mark’s cringeworthy Independence Day stunt illustrates his longing for patriotic acceptance …
Read More »Putin rejects Biden claim of crackdown on Kremlin opponents, says Black Lives Matter & Capitol violence show US has its own issues
Putin was asked by American reporters whether his government was engaging in a “crackdown” against domestic opposition, and whether Biden had asked the Kremlin to put an end to supposed repressions. Rejecting the insinuations, Putin said that Washington had no real grounds on which to complain. “America recently faced some …
Read More »