A long used technology is revived from the dead, brings news to Russia and Ukraine

Hello everyone,

This is not surprising what I’m going to report, and this i feared. I know that all I’m doing is giving my free thoughts on what is going on, and linking to things that I feel should be talked about.

This clubhouse room does not have replays available, but is a current live room at the time of writing.

As the article I’ll be linking to indicates and I just heard, Russia has blocked all forms of social media which icludes but will not be limited to Facebook and Twitter. The president has also according to what I heard, put in to law anyone who reports the real news will be arrested and charged in Russia.

The BBC room I’m currently listening to indicates that Ukraine is telling people to film and document what is going on, and I think that should be supportive.

How the BBC is getting real news into Russia is fascinating is an article that talks about how short wave radio, something I have a little familiarity with is coming back to get the news to the Russian citizens.

This is very important, as Russia does not want its citizens to know aht is really going on. The Russian government can not do anything about short wave radio. The BBC used it from the mid 30s till 2008, according to the article. They’re bringing it back so that Russians can get what is really going on.

Under the “what you need to know” section of komando.com’s article linked above, it says:

Last week, Putin took Russia’s final independent TV station off the air for reporting news of the invasion gathered by western media outlets. He didn’t stop there and later blocked Facebook because of its “discrimination against Russian media and information resources.”

For those who have short wave, information on how to listen is given. Please check this out, it might save your life if you are affected by the ongoing war. Thanks so much for reading!