While we have people in America crying about "censorship" because their Twitter account was suspended, here are some stark reminders of a quite different sort of censorship for anti-war protesters in Russia.
The
first video shows a journalist interviewing a protester, who asks how long the journalist thinks she will be able to hold up a sign saying "two words." (To be clear: the sign doesn't say "No War" like many other Russian anti-war protesters; the sign literally says the words "two words" in Russian.) It takes less than 7 seconds for the police to snatch her up and take her away. A bystander is then interviewed by the same journalist, and is starting a pro-Kremlin speech when... she is also briskly hauled away.
In the
second video, a protester holding a literally blank sign is being arrested.
There is a vast gulf separating "private companies not allowing you to use their services to amplify your voice" and "the government throwing you in jail for speech it doesn't agree with."
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