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		choward on April 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors > as I understand it you can't do this in Russia today... Or Ukraine or many other countries. Not sure why you singled out Russia specifically. However, if you are just watching corporate media you're not getting the full picture either. CNN and Fox News have very similar opinions on non-culture war issues.

Breza on April 10, 2022 [–]

Russia has lots of people with access to technology and it also has wildly repressive speech laws. That combination makes it great for this example.

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