The group "Spleen" has a song "Head Down", which perfectly illustrates everything that is happening now in the international information space.

Back in 1984, the Soviet special services desperately jammed the Voice of America, which was trying to convey something to Soviet citizens.

Then it was called the truth (but in fact it was counter-propaganda, of course).

It means that 36 years have passed, and the Russia Today TV channel acts as the "Voice of America" ​​(Spain, Great Britain, France, etc.).

To get an alternative point of view, the European needs to turn on the TV channel that is part of the Russian teleholding.

Well, isn't it a turn?

Well, our western partners also know how to jam.

These, of course, are not radio suppression stations, but disclaimers that this or that post / tweet is questionable or written by a government agency of another country.

These are fines for the owners of TV channels, issued for the fact that today is Thursday.

These are threats to close, seal and ... banal removal of content.

There was a video - and it is not.

There was text, and now there is a stub.

There was freedom of speech, but now there is a struggle for democracy, where only "democrats" can open their mouths.

So much has been said about the wonderful pluralism, open-mindedness and genuine journalism of some BBC, NYT or The Washington Post that you are sincerely surprised when your own people eat their own for letting them remind them of the motto of another founding father.

Yes, there is no real alternative to YouTube and Facebook right now.

The vast majority of people consume content there.

Therefore, the articulation of our meanings has to be carried out exactly there.

From this position, the proposal to slow down traffic and block videos and / or pages on social networks does not look like a panacea.

We need alternative platforms, services, original content that will form the core of users covering the entire Russian-speaking world (250 million people - ⅙ of the Facebook audience).

Now we cook Parmesan and we can not die from the lack of Italian Parmesan.

We are now growing a record amount of vegetables and can cover the import of Turkish and / or Azerbaijani products.

In digital, the rule should be just that.

In the meantime, we are introducing a traffic rate limiting tool, the ability to block other people's content in response to censorship applied to our content providers.

Is it fair?

Yes.

If the same YouTube wants to be a high-quality service, then let him in Russia take care of the high-quality delivery of Russian-language content and in the same Great Britain does the same.

Then the British can be sure that Russia is a platform open to fair competition.

Whoever comes to us with a ban will die from him.

It is not necessary to teach us about life.

We have been asking for this since 2007.

Wake up already, dear partners.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.