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You mean the TV station lost broadcasting-rights, or you mean the website it actually banned? Cause the website is certainly accessible for me from my European

by Epa095 8mo ago

You mean the TV station lost broadcasting-rights, or you mean the website it actually banned? Cause the website is certainly accessible for me from my European country, although that does not rule out that it is banned in some European countries.

sunaookami 8mo ago
The website rt.com is banned in the whole EU due to a decret by von der Leyen which bypassed parliament. It's trivial to bypass since it's "only" a DNS block but it's still censorship (no matter how you think about the content of RT). Same for Sputnik and the relevant TV channels.
- dgellow 8mo ago
  That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine
  - throwaway140126 8mo ago
    No, it is not. I'm also german and rt.com is DNS blocked by the Telekom. dig @192.168.2.1 rt.com ; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> @192.168.2.1 rt.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64757 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;rt.com. IN A ;; Query time: 30 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 20 09:17:58 UTC 2026 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 35
  - eagleal 8mo ago
    It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country. In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
  - sunaookami 8mo ago
    Why do you accuse me of lying when you can literally google it and the decret that got passed? Not every ISP seems to participate (if you'd googled it you find news articles complaining that it isn't censor enoughed ironically: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/business/media/russia-rt-disinformation-europe-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/business/media/russia-rt-...). EDIT: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022R0350 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
    - dgellow 8mo ago
      you're right, I apologize for the knee-jerk reaction. I completely forgot my router doesn't use my ISP DNS. Thanks for the calm response and links, even after my inflammatory comment. Unfortunately I cannot edit or delete it anymore
      - sunaookami 8mo ago
        It's ok, it's a heated topic. Kudos for apologizing :)
- krige 8mo ago
  No it isn't. t. EU citizen.
  - sunaookami 8mo ago
    It is, see the other comment. t. also EU citizen

by Epa095 8mo ago

sunaookami 8mo ago

The website rt.com is banned in the whole EU due to a decret by von der Leyen which bypassed parliament. It's trivial to bypass since it's "only" a DNS block but it's still censorship (no matter how you think about the content of RT). Same for Sputnik and the relevant TV channels.

dgellow 8mo ago
That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine
- throwaway140126 8mo ago
  No, it is not. I'm also german and rt.com is DNS blocked by the Telekom. dig @192.168.2.1 rt.com ; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> @192.168.2.1 rt.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64757 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;rt.com. IN A ;; Query time: 30 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 20 09:17:58 UTC 2026 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 35
- eagleal 8mo ago
  It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country. In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
- sunaookami 8mo ago
  Why do you accuse me of lying when you can literally google it and the decret that got passed? Not every ISP seems to participate (if you'd googled it you find news articles complaining that it isn't censor enoughed ironically: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/business/media/russia-rt-disinformation-europe-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/business/media/russia-rt-...). EDIT: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022R0350 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
  - dgellow 8mo ago
    you're right, I apologize for the knee-jerk reaction. I completely forgot my router doesn't use my ISP DNS. Thanks for the calm response and links, even after my inflammatory comment. Unfortunately I cannot edit or delete it anymore
    - sunaookami 8mo ago
      It's ok, it's a heated topic. Kudos for apologizing :)
krige 8mo ago
No it isn't. t. EU citizen.
- sunaookami 8mo ago
  It is, see the other comment. t. also EU citizen