Effectively, 'deligitimizing' the authorities is extremism, and extremism is criminal, so disagreeing with the authorities - by word or clicks - is a criminal act.
Nobody cancels Russians like Russia.
https://t.co/z7BArI8Q2L
Russia cancels stand-up comic - whoops, actually, almost six years in prison for a tasteless joke. Oh, and those who supported his shows are part of an 'organized crime group.'
Nobody cancels Russians like Russia.
https://t.co/qdKXvPQBgB
Russian filmmaker cancelled for complaining that the Russian government's 'foreign agent' laws cancels citizens and that censorship is widespread. Nobody cancels Russians more than the Russian government.
https://t.co/g3AXXiaw8t
Russia cancels a mother for insufficiently influencing her son to accept military service. Nobody cancels Russians like Russia. https://t.co/ecbzd7JBst
Russian ministry of education cancels Russian literature, including Vasily Grossman, Viktor Shalamov, and Viktor Pelevin (the last for 'mocking the cult of the cosmonaut'): https://t.co/3SJiApVdQb
These vignettes are only a small part of a much larger phenomenon, a revival of totalitarian processes that is devastating Russian culture.
As @jpaulgoode remarked recently, 'nobody is better at canceling Russians and de-platforming Russian culture than the Russian state' 13/13
Putin's attack on Russian culture was heralded by Walking Together, a Kremlin-backed youth movement that staged Nazi-style actions in 2002 against 'pornographic' literature, tossing books by major writers like Vladimir Sorokin into an giant toilet outside the Bolshoi theatre.2/13
Medvedev is just a self-parody account:
Former president tries to use a (Russian) AI to generate a violent anti-Ukrainian meme, but it doesn't work. Generating the violent Russian image does, though.
https://t.co/BCwmExKFNk