Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses US and Big Tech of “Mediacide”

I have been scouring the Russian Embassy in the USA official website for juicy information and I stumbled across a briefing from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, on 07/14/2022. With some VERY interesting comments pertaining to the Western Governments and Big Tech, and their hypocritical attempts to suppress inconvenient media reports, specifically those coming from Russia and Independent Journalists.

See link to entire report here: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1822079/

But I want to focus on one passage in particular, see below:

Online chronicles of reprisals against Russian media and journalists by Western countries and internet companies

"For several years, we have been compelled to write regularly about the West’s efforts to suppress Russian and undesirable to the authorities Russian language media that were preventing the political elites of the “advanced democracies” from manipulating public opinion in their countries as they saw fit. However, it is difficult to find a name for what happened and continues to happen almost every day since February 24 of this year simply for lack of any historical analogy. The closest definition that occurs to us in an attempt to describe this notion would be “mediacide based on ethnic origin and political conviction.” In other words, this is an attempt to destroy the very notion of media pluralism through the totalitarian cleansing of one’s information space, including the digital space, from all alternative views on global events. This primarily concerns all Russian, Russian-language and Russia-affiliated media without exception. An entire arsenal of reprisals and restrictions is used against their distributors at the same time. The main enemies include Russian journalists, military correspondents, editors-in-chief and bloggers that provide not only a one-sided, Western interpretation of events but also alternative reports. The leaders of public opinion are in the same category.

In effect, the West wants to deprive its people once and for all of the opportunity to critically analyse the flow of news and replace it with monochrome propaganda coverage. In the process, they continue to talk about the intransient value of freedom of speech. This is not just the expression of model hypocrisy typical of the rhetoric from a neo-liberal political class. They are doing this under the obvious influence of self-hypnosis in their exclusiveness and permissiveness.

We do not see any point in arguing with these pseudo proponents of freedom of speech with their obvious signs of personality disorder. We will start publishing chronicles of the most striking facts of reprisal and harassment of the Russian media and journalists on the Foreign Ministry website that have occurred since the recognition of the independence of the DPR and the LPR and the start of the special military operation to defend Donbass. It is impossible to mention everything every time. This material will be accessible to all those who are not indifferent to the status of freedom of speech in the world. We want to explain in practical terms what “mediacide” as regards Russian and Russian-language media and journalists means. We will regularly update this information because we realise that there will be many reasons for doing so in the near future. This exorbitant hype in harassing the Russian media will not abate. Why? Because the Western regimes have taken a course towards the complete cleansing of the media space from everything that does not fit in into their vision of the world."

Wow... that was powerful. Zakharova sounds A LOT like Trump and his tireless war against the Fake News Media. Essentially the Russian Government are saying that the West are a bunch of hypocritical Orwellian Neo-Liberal Fascists committing "MEDIACIDE" and forcefully monopolizing the narrative on global events via totalitarian measures, to push "monochrome propaganda", while simultaneously parading as the shining beacon of "Freedom of Speech".

Zakharova also calls out US Internet companies and Big Tech, due to their willing subordination, aiding the suppression of Russian and independent narratives via censorship and Western blackouts on media. Bending the knee and assisting in State sponsored Fascism.

She goes on to say that Russia sees no value in any diplomacy with these entities due to their striking hypocrisy and signs of "personality disorder". Calling out the liberal-globalists for not following the same rules they so harshly impose on others. Rules for thee, not for me. It's (D)ifferent.

And the most important sentence is the last one, which all of us Conservative Americans are all too familiar with, "Western regimes have taken a course towards the complete cleansing of the media space from everything that does not fit in into their vision of the world."

I could not have said it any better myself. The sacred freedoms protected by the US Constitution have been completely disregarded and trampled on by the Liberal-Globalist entities who manipulate all American and Western life, aka, the Deep State. The America we grew up knowing, is no more. The values and ideologies that allegedly separated the US from the rest of the world... it was all a lie. An illusion. The pillars of American culture are gone. The United States of America has fallen. The Constitution is merely a piece of paper ignored by the elite class. They view it as an obstacle, standing in the way of controlling the American People.

This perversion of the Constitution and crimes perpetrated on humanity cannot and WILL NOT go unpunished. A great reckoning is coming, one way or another. Let us pray that the Constitution holds firm, and the forces of Good triumph over the blasphemous evil that has infiltrated our midst.

-Clandestine