Comment by Hikikomori

4 days ago

Are they restreaming football?

www.rt.com is blocked in a couple of countries in Europe, so it's not about football, rather to curb "disinformation" for the next elections or whatever.

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/the-achilles-heel...

So, freedom.gov is also blocked to protect you from fake news I guess.

Sad.

  • RT is blocked in the entire EU as part of a sanctions round due to the invasion of Ukraine: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...

    • No — it's not and I've just verified that. The RT website is accessible: people can visit it, create accounts, log in, and use all its features without restrictions.

      What’s changed about the RT is public perception. It’s widely recognized and labeled as a Kremlin propaganda outlet — which is precisely what it is — so audiences can approach its content with appropriate awareness.

      If someone can't access the page, it's likely caused by a particular ISP and not by "European censorship".

  • It actually is, the IP it resolves to is Cloudflare.

    • Lucky you (this was not cynical) because for me there is no Cloudflare:

          This site can’t be reached
          Check if there is a typo in rt.com.
      
          DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
      

      (just an empty A record)

    • rt.com does not use Cloudflare, they are a customer of DDOS Guard:

        $ drill -Q rt.com | tee $(tty) | xargs whois | grep org-name
        91.215.41.4
        org-name:       DDOS-GUARD LTD
      
        $ curl --silent https://www.rt.com | grep '<title>[^<]\*</title>' | head -1
        <title>RT - Breaking News, Russia News, World News and Video</title>