In looking into this again I found a supposedly serious legal breakdown that literally says that in the intro paragraph.
To address legitimate questions of double standards that will come up in the wake of the inevitable whataboutism, it should be stressed that the Union’s measures differ decisively from any authoritarian censorship by virtue of the Union’s character as a community of law.
The case for blocking Russian media is made on the basis that it is “propaganda for war,” yet one cannot seriously argue that what western media is doing isn’t propaganda for war.
In looking into this again I found a supposedly serious legal breakdown that literally says that in the intro paragraph.
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-ban-of-rt-and-sputnik/
The case for blocking Russian media is made on the basis that it is “propaganda for war,” yet one cannot seriously argue that what western media is doing isn’t propaganda for war.