[jfman]

It would strike me as an extremely low bar if your definition of an acceptable level of freedom of the press under the Zelensky regime was to be roughly similar to, or slightly better than, a country you’d all roundly condemn.

On paper at least the D notice system seems significantly different from the press intimidation reported in the Guardian article I linked to above - where conscription and intimidation by the intelligence community is cited as a method of silencing legitimate journalism. If the UK did that in World War 2 that’d be worthy of condemnation not a defence of Ukraine’s actions.

Comparing practices a century ago to now is once again questionable since technology allows greater availability of international news, satellites and even social media footage allows for greater tracking of troop movements and other resources in a way that simply wasn’t possible for the average person (and also the enemy) in the 1940s. The argument for censorship for security reasons has never been weaker - although I accept it exists the accusation against Ukraine from journalists was this went beyond that in any case.