Meduza is now required by law to post a notice of its “foreign agent” status in a typeface bigger than the text of its articles.
An address may or may not be tied to donors’ real-world identity, depending on how they acquired the crypto and what steps they took to protect their privacy, whereas their bank and PayPal accounts definitely are.
But I don’t mind that it exists, and I don’t want to prevent those who want to read, watch or hear it from doing so.
I can already hear the bien pensants say, “It’s only censorship when the government does it.” But even if you accept only that narrow legal definition of the word, it surely describes what the Russian government – the very regime whose influence in the U.S.
By all means, let’s pay attention to how terrorists, foreign or now, we’re told, domestic, might take advantage of this technology.
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