• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    You people have no idea what you're all talking about, this isn't even piracy smh my head

    They're engaging in expanding the exploration of art and intellectual crafts; expanding the study of foreign media; they're engaging in intellectual sovereignty. Belarus doesn't want to fall under the sway of entertainment diplomacy.

    Satire aside (and I'm fairly certain I'm not a great satirist), we've seen media spin every story of theirs in ridiculous ways so people can enjoy intellectual dishonesty; frankly if Belarus did the same I wouldn't blame them. They (Western journalists) justified withholding the vaccine from people and then pointed the finger at nations sharing their own vaccines and accused them of engaging in 'vaccine diplomacy', they called nationalizing the energy sector in France as 'energy sovereignty', the stuff they've said about China and North Korea is so blatantly ridiculous as to be parody (like that Telegraph article saying math lessons were akin to dastardly communist policy by Xi).

    And it's always with these ridiculous terms and explanations (like that hot take claiming the legal result of the Haditha massacre was actually a victory for the system of law and order, the legal result that saw the killers walk free); basically I would love it if Belarus scoffed at being accused of piracy and instead called it or explained it as some ridiculous term or idea like 'intellectual sovereignty' or 'nationalizing copyright' and engage in the same gaslighting you get from Western journalists, with the average Belarusian or even the average Eastern European not even entertaining the thought that it was piracy at all and just a simple case of individual freedoms being evoked; the downside however here is that you risk raising lib-brained morons in your own country who actually buy into this stuff just like Western journalism has done.