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Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Does he really? I think it's more like he got stuck there on his way to Ecuador and now he has no alternative but to "like" Putin :P

After all his plan was never to stay in Russia.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i mean "Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says"

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I know.. But the point is, he's stuck there.

He had 2 choices:

Play ball and swear his oath and suck up a little to the godfather and live happily ever after
Kick up a stink against Putin and find himself falling out of a closed window (or, best case, being deported and spending his days in a max security prison).

It's not really like "free will" applies here :)

Whatever the lawyer said is just the minimum required decorum IMO. Just politics. The oath is probably simply required to get the passport.

Putin got to get one-over on the US and Snowden got to stay out of prison (well, in reality a really huge prison but still...). It's a marriage of convenience.