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they were state funded but not controlled back then, they've been slowly adding on censorship laws... not every human in russia is this super evil, red-scare, diabolical agent plotting against your freedom...
they were, very recently, much freer and more democratic... putin has slowly been turning it back into a dictatorship
see also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
How much of their funding came from the state? 100%? That’s 100% control.
cool how they played all those advertisements for freeee...
cool how NBC is 100% controlled by their advertisers...
cool how funding =/= control
You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.
I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.
is not innocently asking questions.
but it does not matter.
even if RT was 100% a puppet and they employed assange to interview people and speak truth, that doesn't make him a russian asset
it was one of the least significant things he ever did in his long career... and he had some really good interviews...