The problem comes when you let the government decide what is "hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism".
It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.
What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We're already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we're not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?
I literally showed you an example where someone was radicalized by hate speech on the internet. Here is another example. I can keep providing them if you would like.
As someone born and raised in the USA, countries elsewhere absolutely should be blocking virtually all of our news media. We're a toxic cesspool of entertainment/propaganda news, with an increasingly deadly end result for its consumers, and those around them.
The agenda of the super rich relies very very heavily on our lying, greed-driven news media.
Please explain how preventing your citizens from using any social media & blocking an openly imperialistic county & known bad actor from propagandizing your citizens are similar.
You are blocking your own citizens to access the media.
Meaning the government is actively curating the viewpoint to the citizens. Same like China is doing no?
Well, these are blocked, but if you want to watch RTR Planeta, you can go to the official VGTRK web site and watch it there. Not a big deal... There are only a few media web sites which are banned, most of the toxic shit is still there in the open.