> EU blocking RT.com (and a few others) was quite a shock for me,... really a thing that should not be happening in EU (no matter whose propaganda it is).

Why? Neo-nazi sites have a long history of getting banned everywhere.

Agreed, I was also surprised that the EU would do the very thing that is supposed to set it apart: media censorship.

EU has been at the forefront of censorship. Germany is a model for internet censorship around the world.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/06/germany-online-crackdow...

It's funny how people think EU or europe in general is a bastion of freedom. It's not. Never has been. And never will be. What europe is exceptional at is self-promotion and virtue signaling.

RT was targeted multiple times in the past - this is not exactly a new thing. RT itself was not really censored either (not in the way specific information is outright illegal in Russia for example) - you can still go to the source if you really want to. (See the comment below about domain blocking though) They're just forbidden from using the national broadcast, since that was always controlled by various orgs. In most EU countries you get in trouble for lying in adverts, (https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/consumer_laws...) so I'm not surprised Russian-gov-masquerading-as-news got affected too.

Many ISPs have blocked rt.com domains on their DNS servers

eg. in belgium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_Belgium#EU...

Thank you for this nuance. I thought it sounded crazy.