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German Vodafone customer here: It seems to be blocked properly not just on DNS level. Changing DNS does not fix it.

$ ping rt.com

PING rt.com (91.215.41.4) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- rt.com ping statistics ---

293 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 295812ms

I'm not a Putin/Russia supporter, nor do I read rt.com, but I want the ability to hear what the enemy says.

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> but I want the ability to hear what the enemy says.

Read propaganda written for internal consumption then. I find it much more illuminating. Maybe through Google Translate, I think it's quite decent at ru → en translation these days.

Some of the main outlets off the top of my head:

https://kommersant.ru

Or through an aggregator:

https://yandex.ru/news/

Getting acquainted with both kinds of propaganda is informative. If you compare RT and internal outlets side by side, you see which stuff gets said for which audience.

Very much so. Example: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/11/11/the-two-faces-of-rt-...

I think that's because the rt server does not respond to ICMP. I use 1.1.1.1 and can access rt.com just fine (also German Vodafone customer here)

try curl. DNS is blocked for me, but ip traffic works, just not ICMP (probably blocked on RT side)

$ curl http://91.215.41.4 <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>DDOS-GUARD</title><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">....

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