Is there any effort to crowd fund Voice of America? It would cost US citizens less than $1 a year each. What is the price on freedom of speech? Is it less than that?

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      9 hours ago

      You’ll never rid the world of propaganda. That’s absurd. The question is whether you want the majority of the World’s population to listen to your own propaganda or the propaganda of your enemies. Which would you prefer?

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      9 hours ago

      Apologies, but the ‘old news’ argument sometimes seems to me to be a way of shutting down debate, not moving it forward. I agree Trump has done it - but the question is what is America going to do about it?

      Who benefits most from shutting down Voice of America? In my view, it’s not the US tax payer, it’s Vladimir Putin.

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        6 hours ago

        I was saying the news is past tense already. But yes, there’s already multiple discussions about it here as well, if that’s how you want to take it.