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    This newssource claims that the plane wasn’t forced down by Belarius and a fighter jet, that this is misinformation portrayed by the new york times and that protonmail is a part of it for providing claims regarding the incident.

    It also claims protonmail is at fault for the sanctions against Belarus.

    I’m very sceptical to the moonofalabama.org and it’s claims. This is a highly publizised event, if there was any truth to this it would be shared among more reputable newssources as it would be pretty big news and heads would roll among the news organizations and protonmail for bringing misinformation. peoples journalistic integrity would be gone, and protonmail would face a big backlash.

    I’ll go as far as to claim this article is sharing misinformation and is trying to defend the dictatorship of Belarus, and this at the odds of it’s people who have been protesting their government while suffering hard police violence.

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      This newssource claims that the plane wasn’t forced down by Belarius and a fighter jet

      The conclusion is based on the radio traffic between the plane and Belarussian air traffic control, which their government released here (scroll to the bottom). Note that the pilot doesnt mention the fighter jet at all.

      You might say that the transcript is not accurate, but this communication is entirely unencrypted. If Belarus made any modifications, the airline or neighboring countries would surely notice and contest it. I havent seen anyone contest the correctness of the transcript, which makes me assume that it is correct.

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        3 years ago

        I don’t have any claims towards the transcript. It’s probably accurate, but it doesn’t change the context around the case. The article flat out denies the use of a fighter jet.

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          It doesnt.

          They scrambled a fighter jet to watch over the plane as is usual with any plane that gets threatened or hijacked. The Ryanair pilot was left unaware of this.

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            3 years ago

            I’m sorry. I mean having a jet fighter there to bring them down by force. It is not “as usual”. But I don’t think most people are going to take this seriously anyway. Particularly as this is such a well covered event.

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      3 years ago

      It’s good to know that at least in your sub-conscience you are starting to see that social democracies are dictatorships! We are making progress, see you in the next session.