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Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
by ulrischa 3y ago
Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
- dhoe 3y agoBut that's been happening for some time already, while this spike is recent.
- Xeophon 3y agoRussian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
- commandnotfound 3y agoI just opened rt.com on my home connection with no tor or VPN and everything worked. I'm physically in the Czech Republic if that matters.
- ChatGTP 3y agoI just read on Al-Jazeera that Putin is back in control, that's why :)
- jd_paton 3y agoSource? I’m in NL and I can access it just fine. I use Cloudflare for DNS though
- mkl95 3y agoI would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNo excuse for that censorship honestly.
- flangola7 3y agoEliminating enemy propaganda is extremely common and a long running practice. It's less censorship and more self defense.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoLooking at it from that perspective it makes a kind of sense, although I think it is less defensible in modern day with the internet.
- flangola7 3y agoIt's more defensible! Propaganda is far, far, less effective as a blind radio broadcast or air pamphlets than micro-targeted interactive sessions intricately engineered to maximize neurological reinforcement loops. Absolutely insidious.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNo, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed. This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against. Then again, given how inept people are at thinking for themselves, maybe a nanny state is what's best.
- flangola7 3y ago> No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed. Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier. Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not - and that is assuming everything can and will be checked by every person, which isn't realistic. > This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against. It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that. Brainworms are an insidious contagion.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoMight also depend on how it’s enforced. The blocks in Austria basically do not exist because they are only done by carrier DNS servers. Use 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you would not know.
- lxgr 3y agoThe vast majority of people use their ISP’s DNS server, though.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoI don’t think that is relevant here. If in one country you need a VPN to bypass blocking but others you only need a different DNS server I would expect most users to go for the latter if given a choice.
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- mr_mitm 3y agoI can open rt.com just fine in Germany. (Not using my ISP's DNS server though. It's true that rt.com won't resolve when using it.)
- beebeepka 3y agoLies. I just tried rt.com on my home connection and it opened without a problem
- cynicalsecurity 3y ago[flagged]
- 0xDEF 3y agoNot really. I preferred the approach of pre-Musk twitter that clearly labeled it as Russian state media. Also banning it had little effect. The war propaganda coming out of Russia was hilariously incompetent. The real insidious anti-Ukrainian propaganda is coming from pro-Russian Westerners, pre-dominantly the American populist right.
- hutzlibu 3y agoAnd NATO or ukrainian propaganda? Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant. The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.
- duozerk 3y ago[flagged]
- 0xDEF 3y ago[flagged]
- duozerk 3y agoLooking into it you appear to be right, thanks; that single study is almost exclusively the single source of all similar articles, too. Admittedly I don't use twitter, so I don't have first hand experience in this. It's still pretty obvious that there is a propaganda effort from NATO as well, and one that seems to work a lot more than Russia's on western audiences. > There are literally viral tweets blaming Ukraine for creating COVID-19. lmao that's so insane it almost sounds like a bit
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- aqme28 3y agoIs tor really the go-to workaround for this and not just a VPN?
- reaperman 3y agoVPN seems like it would be vastly preferable for performance and reliability.
- Zetobal 3y ago- it's dns blocked -
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- sparkling 3y agoUhm... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrungen_von_Internetinhalten_in_Deutschland https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrungen_von_Internetinhalte... Edit: parent poster has now changed his post after claiming there was no blocking in Germany