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Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original

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Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Ruviki is intended to be a more “trustworthy” source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes the Russian government look bad.

What the hell?

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Because censoring is effective to control people.

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