Censorship in Russia? Why do not we see censorship in Greece?

The last space we publish the reactions of major tech companies to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After the first EU measures (mentioned below), things have become generalized and of course gone out of hand.

For history

On 23 February 2022, the EU approved a first package of measures, including:

• targeted restrictive measures
• restrictions on economic relations with the out-of-government areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
• financial constraints

On 25 February 2022, the EU approved a second package of measures, including:

• individual sanctions against Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov and members of the State Duma of Russia, among others
• financial sanctions

On 28 February and 2 March 2022, the EU adopted a third package, including:

• supply of equipment and supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces through the European Peace Mechanism
• ban on overflights in EU airspace and access to EU airports for Russian carriers of any kind
• ban on transactions with the Central Bank of Russia
• exclusion from the SWIFT system of seven Russian banks
• suspension of broadcasting in the EU by the state media Russia Today and Sputnik
• individual and economic sanctions against Belarus

On 9 March 2022, the EU adopted new measures, including:

• exclusion from the SWIFT system of three Belarusian banks
• prohibition of any conchanges with the Central Bank of Belarus
• imposing limits on financial inflows from Belarus to the EU
• ban on the supply of euro banknotes in Belarus
• restrictions on exports of maritime and wireless technology to Russia
• sanctions on 160 additional persons

source: consilium.europa.eu

Let's focus on the "suspension of broadcasting in the EU by the state media Russia Today and Sputnik".

It is Europe's first official announcement since the BPP to impose censorship on Media. Various reactions from the big tech companies followed:

• Google has disabled the release of its Maps in Ukraine
• Twitter with onion URL for the ban of Russia
• DuckDuckGo downgrades Russian propaganda in search results
• Facebook allows posts calling for Putin's death

All the above posts had various reactions on our Facebook page. Many of them referred ironically to "Democracy." The world has changed and if you do not believe it we should also mention that individuals like Elon Musk who provided Starlink for Ukraine's Internet connections are also taking part in this war.

Of course, all of the above was revealed because we explicitly blame the perpetrator of the invasion. It took a war to officially announce a generalized censorship.

But what about Greece?

On April 19, a journalist from the Greek public radioTVs denounced repeated censorship of her investigations, culminating in a broadcast on social media censorship.

Corresponding incidents have been recorded in news programs, such as e.g. for refugee camps, even in works of art.

On April 19, in their annual report, Reporters Without Borders announced that Greece had dropped to 70th place in the world rankings for press freedom, citing incidents of violence and arrests of journalists.

We publish one of the cases mentioned above, the case of the journalist Mahi Nikolara.

The conclusion is yours to make