If you believe in any kind of system of morality, it's absolutely possible for one's own government to be in the moral wrong and the enemy government to be in the moral right. Censorship means the citizens may never learn that their country is the bad guy in that case.
> The RT ban is not about what RT publishes, you are free to publish their arguments more or less verbatim on your own site without getting sanctioned in Europe (which indeed some people do).
It is not. People are allowed to do what they will, as long as those people are not the outlet itself. The propaganda outlet loses control over it and cannot push the media through, only hope that others pull it from them.
Freedom of speech rarely makes "tactical sense", which is why we as citizens need to continually fight for it.
The irony of freedom of speech, much like democracy in general, is that it can destroy itself.
If you believe in any kind of system of morality, it's absolutely possible for one's own government to be in the moral wrong and the enemy government to be in the moral right. Censorship means the citizens may never learn that their country is the bad guy in that case.
This is inconsistent with the upthread argument:
> The RT ban is not about what RT publishes, you are free to publish their arguments more or less verbatim on your own site without getting sanctioned in Europe (which indeed some people do).
It is not. People are allowed to do what they will, as long as those people are not the outlet itself. The propaganda outlet loses control over it and cannot push the media through, only hope that others pull it from them.
The difference is they're not an enemy sovereign state. This isn't contradictory or illogical.
paradox of tolerance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
somehow missed the fact that the EU has declared war already
You don't need to declare war to have enemies. After all, Russia has launched chemical and radiological attacks on EU states.