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USA vs Cuba
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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What about freedom of press and expression?
just ask Assange, Manning, or Snowden
Whataboutism, a tankie's favourite tool
double standards, dronie's favorite tool
Literally proving my point lmao
the point being that you apply one standard to US and another to Cuba, and bleat about whataboutism when people point out
I don't think they did a bad thing but of course the government doesn't like that they leak classified information.
Either way, it's irrelevant when it is so much worse in Cuba.
And you can ask pretty much every reputable international human rights organisation or press freedom organisation.
It's very much relevant because it shows that every government will censor information that it finds threatening. There is a long history of censorship in the west just like everywhere else. The real difference is what sort of things are censored. In Cuba, censorship focuses on preventing a capitalist counterrevolution.