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BBC points Russians to the Tor version of itself

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Fahrenheit 451

RT.com is unreachable, even through TOR.

451 fahrenheit (232,8°C) is the temperature at which paper burns. It's also the name of a science-fiction book by Ray Bradbury that depicts a totalitarian regime that forbids some books and burns them so that people cannot read them, and thus be "perverted" by them. It takes its subject from the McCarthism that was prevalent in the 1950-ies in the USA.

Since Internet is what books and newspaper used to be, the censoring of Russian sites proves that our "western liberal" societies have reached that totalitarian regime. I mean, for those who didn't hear the shot since 2 years of Covidian nonsense. Now we can see that it was not nonsense, it was a dictatorial takeover : all the tools that were put in place to "save lives" will now be used to censor and control the population.

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