![]() So in the end, the attempt to censor the truth within Russia will ultimately backfire. You can check it out yourself by going to this link. Russian law has now made it criminal for global news organizations to speak truth in the public eye, but CS:GO is making that possible through journalistic ingenuity. There are plenty of other avenues by which the truth about the war in Ukraine can break through. And hiding news like this isn’t limited to CS:GO. The point is that in a globally connected digital world, the success rate of information censorship will always trend to failure. And you can certainly see these small penetrations of news from outside of Russian borders being spread via word of mouth within the country. Now, this certainly isn’t going to reach people in Russia the way it would if Putin and his cronies weren’t so completely terrified of the truth so as to censor news it doesn’t like. Another station tells the story of the Ukrainian civilian Yuriy Glodan, whose family was killed by a missile strike while he was shopping for groceries. A map details the locations in Ukraine that Russian soldiers have attacked, and a table lists the number of Russians who have been killed. Once they enter, they’ll see newspaper headlines about the war in Ukraine-including the massacre in Bucha, where mass graves have been discovered. When a player dies on the de_voyna map, they’re able to freely roam the space and find an underground room near a flame (which has symbolic significance as a war memorial). So Helsingin Sanomat paid two custom map designers to create a map with a hidden room that details the horrors of war in Ukraine. Helsingin Sanomat released the map on May 2. And unlike other western services such as Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, the servers have remained online in Russia. And, creatively using the online video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, on Finnish news group is demonstrating how.Īccording to the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, CS:GO is extremely popular in Russia-it’s played by nearly 4 million people, mostly young men. ![]() ![]() Many foreign outlets around the world found their content blocked in Russia.īut the internet, as they say, routes around censorship. I couldn’t possibly make those scare-quote marks big enough, so unburdened is the Russian government with anything resembling credibility. Russia took all kinds of steps in this quest, including putting demands on internet and social media sites to stop fact checking government assertions, as well as making it illegal to publish any “false” information about the war. When Putin decided to show the world that his government is so wildly incompetent that it turned what was supposed to be a weeks long takeover of Ukraine into a prolonged conflict in which Russian victory of any kind is very much an open question, he also attempted to keep the truth from reaching Russians. Mon, May 8th 2023 07:38pm - Timothy Geigner ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |