@Swedneck They must have done some quick patches. Or who knows…

@MissingInteger

@fu I do think it’s Ground News who decided to cut it. I don’t think Russia would be sad if they receive any exposure at all. Not really sure, but probably they wanted to set a threshold on how much of the propaganda/bias they would allow on their platform at all.

idk, my 2c.

@fu RT is literally state propaganda of Russia. With lots of fake news and half coverage about anything. If you’d ask me to choose 2 news sources to get rid of from the face of the planet, they would be RT and Sputnik. They’re not just propaganda about Russia (which is what TASS and other state media agencies are), they’re simply Russian propaganda about anything.

BRINCS?

@schizoidman if the alternative to corporate owned social media is a platform of the CCP then we’re pretty much all fucked.

@schizoidman this is interesting news

@alyaza I hated this so much lmfao

@along_the_road Their existence is threatened anyway, so they are rightfully so. Plus, I do think their intelligence services know a thing or two about their arsenal, especially if it works or not.

@schizoidman

@schizoidman highly likely imo. Nuclear weapons are generally a sensitive thing for all the countries that have them. Perhaps they did not want to set a precedent or something, or maybe China’s businesses in Europe would have been affected if a nuclear explosion occurred anywhere on the continent.

Who knows…

@Powderhorn these seem only temporary blocks (at least declaratively). And as far as I remember, no state imposed border checks along its entire border. So you could i.e. bypass the blocked border by just changing your route I think.

Anyway, the fact that we, bulgarians, and by extension also greeks and hungarians had official border checks made things much more dificult in the region. One prime example would be the fact that many Romanians go on holidays in Greece or Bulgaria because the prices and conditions are terrible in our the sea resorts. Hungarians also shop in Romania because of the lower prices. And examples can continue.

@remington The edit to my previous comment doesn’t seem to appear on Beehaw, but here are a few snippets of what Georgescu said in all his glory:

@iii He really was unknown, and I can tell you that as a Romanian. He was actually more known by some parts of our political establishment (or should I say, our former political establishment now) than the public. Literally every single person I spoke with was like, “who is this guy? I don’t know him. I only read about him a few days ago”. So no, it’s not like he had any public notoriety at all. Many people said online that they voted for him especially because he was unknown and wanted to “waste”/“cancel” their vote. I personally barely heard about him, I remember I heard about him when he was proposed by AUR as a prime minister a few years ago and that was it, I completely forgot about him again.

I only heard about him a few weeks prior to the election, but I always thought it was some weird ass candidate who thinks he’ll win the elections, but will barely gather 5% at best (we have these types across all the political spectrum). Then I also Googled a bit to find more info about him and found who he actually is. But I still thought he won’t reach the mainstream. Again, there are people that were more vocal during the campaigns, and they didn’t even reach 10%.

For reference, Trump had appeared in various TV shows like Fox&Friends or The Celebrity Apprentice, he appeared in the Home Alone series, he even got the Trump Tower. And overall, he was a really notorious and successful businessman. Georgescu had none of these. So even if the people were justified to vote for him (hell, I’m not denying this, vote for whoever you want, we’re a democracy after all), given this fact and declarations like the chance of Romania is the Russian wisdom and others like that, this is something that should be investigated.

@Kissaki

@iii Nobody said that. It is not about not liking the outcome of an election. It is about the unchecked active disinformation happening there that literally brought a schizo who practices pseudoscience in the 1st place.

And it is also about DSA.

@remington Yea, I do. And I did as well. However, I kinda feel this guy is actually worse, lol. Like, the dude is almost a schizo, hardly has any idea how tech and social media actually works and looks like he was backed by whatever secret intelligence or anything. There’s no way this guy would jump from total irrelevance with almost no public exposure as well (orange guy did appear in various TV shows fwiw). For example, he said he doesn’t use his phone because he fears 5G, yet he uses the headsets instead.

@remington Romanian here. It’s all just so surreal…

@Gamers_mate oh. I’m gonna pick Minecraft again then, and do just that, lol.

@JackOverlord lmfao!!!

@Hirom it’s probably lacking decently trained cannon fodder.

@hedge

I genuinely hope to see a coalition in power, but on Instagram (from @rferl 's page - they don’t seem to be that active around here anymore), I saw that the Georgian Dream is leading in the polls, with 53% 🙁

Wow, what do you think I do with games? Of course it’s recreational…