Freedom of speech

The western powers are implementing a comprehensive ban of all news and commentary sources that break their propaganda wall regarding Ukraine (and probably other things that are difficult to verify now due to all the noise).

Apparently their “values” cherish the freedom of speech as long as it toes the government line, which is exactly as much as all totalitarian dictatorships allowed throughout history. Remember me having a problem with “human rights”? If you allow governments to define your rights, you implicitly allow governments to take them all away. That’s why stuff worked here in Europe when we had a universally accepted religious definition of right and wrong; it meant that states and their governments could only work within a very superficial layer of legislature, while the deeper layer was untouchable. When we lost the religious foundations – in French revolution first – we got centuries of slaughter.