Comment by Epa095

5 days 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.

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Epa095

sunaookami 5 days 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 5 days ago
That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine
- throwaway140126 5 days 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 5 days ago
  
  It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country.
  In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
- sunaookami 5 days 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-...).
  EDIT: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
  
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krige 5 days ago
No it isn't. t. EU citizen.
- sunaookami 5 days ago
  
  It is, see the other comment. t. also EU citizen