Dutch Josh-We have the same kind of "discussion"here in the Netherlands. When politicians do not get what they want they blame it on Russia. Basicly politicians want to tell you what "fake" news is and what is real.
Freedom of press is a cornerstone of democracy. Politicians seem to be willing to give that up for a powergrab.
Internet could bring freedom to find a lot of information but governments turn it into a controlmechanism. The "totalitarian democracy"is on its way !
The 2028 news; Everybody loves politicians, there is no poverty, healthissues, climatechange etc. North Korea as a role-model for western democracy ?
https://www.rt.com/uk/409837-may-russia-banquet-meddling/" rel="nofollow - https://www.rt.com/uk/409837-may-russia-banquet-meddling/ UK Prime Minister Theresa May did offer reassurance to everyone in Britain: “I have a very simple message for Russia, we know what you are doing and you will not succeed.” You could hear the sigh of relief. With May showing she doesn’t have a clue what she herself is doing, Britain can at least take solace in the fact she knows what someone else is up to. May’s speech writers must be thanking their lucky stars for Russia. They needed an easy target that didn’t involve mentioning any of the following during this keynote speech: • Brexit is heading for the cliff edge. The government has realized that no matter how much rhetorical twaddle it fires at the Eurocrats, they’re not budging in negotiations. • No Tory intern appears to have entered Parliament for a couple of decades without being groped. • May’s own ministers now apparently don’t have enough respect for her leadership to even regard it as an inconvenience. • Since it became clear she is one disaster away from losing her job, there have been at least four. May told the audience, the absolute definition of establishment, that Russia “is seeking to weaponise information deploying its state run media organisations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the West and undermine our institutions.” To paraphrase, Britain’s centuries old institutions are at risk because someone in Russia is accused of tweeting and messing around with pictures. Turns out that nuclear deterrent was a waste of cash after all. GCHQ should just hire a group of teenage girls to send some nasty trolling tweets back. This would be over in minutes! It’s just a little insulting for the institution she was addressing, which has been around since 1189. May said Russia had been “meddling in elections.” That must have been the booze talking, because the following morning her spokesman confirmed she hadn’t actually seen evidence of that. The real fake news was more evident in May’s ability to just say things which ignore the reality of Brexit altogether.
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
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