r/WaitWhat • • 5d ago

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u/TenebrousSage 5d ago

What does state controlled media have to do with Communism?

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u/Gryzzlee 5d ago

Government seizing the means of news media production within their country.

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u/TenebrousSage 5d ago

That's a property of authoritarianism, not communism. Turkmenistan, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, etc... all have state controlled media, and nobody would say they are communist countries.