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Re:The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawfu... by bootsmann on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:47AM (#39428254)
Blocking RT has little to do with the opinions spread by it (though highly correlated for a variety of reasons), other people in Europe are allowed to say and spread the same ideas without any repercussions. It is about fighting the intelligence operations by a country that is quite literally invading a bordering allied state. RT isn't being blocked because it spread ideas that are contained in some EU law to be illegal and dangerous opinions, they are being blocked because they are owned by the Russian state.
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Re:The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawfu... by m000 on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:51AM (#39428296)
Meanwhile, we've been hugging with some other illegal occupiers for decades. They're even allowed to openly run lobbying groups.
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Re:The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawfu... by 0x000042 on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:01AM (#39428403)
Censorship:

/'sɛnsər,ʃɪp/

noun

counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy

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Re:The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawfu... by bootsmann on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:16AM (#39428516)
If we're going to argue about the semantics here then so be it. Even within your definition this is not censorship. I can copy/paste an article from the RT frontpage onto a personal blog of mine and neither me nor my blog will face any legal repercussions. It's not the information that is being banned, it's the state actor spreading it.
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Re:The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawfu... by hosteur on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:46AM (#39428761)
You cannot access the rt front page without circumventing the censorship. You may be tech savvy and able to circumvent it. But most people are not. Which is key. It is literally censored.
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