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That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine
by dgellow 9mo ago
That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine
- throwaway140126 9mo agoNo, 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 9mo agoIt's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country. In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
- sunaookami 9mo agoWhy 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 9mo agoyou'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 9mo agoIt's ok, it's a heated topic. Kudos for apologizing :)