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Comment by dgellow | Hacker News Reader

That’s a complete lie. I’m in Germany and can access rt.com perfectly fine

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

It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country.

In Italy for example RT website is blocked.

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...

you're right, I apologize for the knee-jerk reaction. I completely forgot my router doesn't use my ISP DNS. Thanks for the calm response and links, even after my inflammatory comment. Unfortunately I cannot edit or delete it anymore

It's ok, it's a heated topic. Kudos for apologizing :)

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