The funniest thing about the "Russian election interference" story is that, even if true (it is true, it's just a matter of what degree it's true), all it was is Russians putting out "propaganda" literally in the forms of memes. It's not like they are accused of doing anything illegal.
And it's propaganda that particularly resonates with people and gets them to share it. Propaganda the people would have created by themselves if left alone. All the Russians did, as accused, was help by making funny memes. This differs from the more traditional type of propaganda where you put something in the public's faces so relentlessly that they start to accept it.
And it's crazy to me that stopping this is even viewed as acceptable. Freedom of speech is an unalienable right granted to every man by his Creator, and merely guaranteed by the US constitution. As such, it applies to every man, regardless of citizenship. The US Government has no right to stop a person's speech just because he's Russian and he's talking about a US election.
The funniest thing about the "Russian election interference" story is that, even if true (it is true, it's just a matter of what degree it's true), all it was is Russians putting out "propaganda" literally in the forms of memes. It's not like they are accused of doing anything illegal.
And it's propaganda that particularly resonates with people and gets them to share it. Propaganda the people would have created by themselves if left alone. All the Russians did, as accused, was help by making funny memes. This differs from the more traditional type of propaganda where you put something in the public's faces so relentlessly that they start to accept it.
And it's crazy to me that stopping this is even viewed as acceptable. Freedom of speech is an unalienable right granted to every man by his Creator, and merely guaranteed by the US constitution. As such, it applies to every man, regardless of citizenship. The US Government has no right to stop a person's speech just because he's Russian and he's talking about a US election.