What content bans does Europe have? /Confused European
Russia Today is banned, for one
rt.com loads just fine for me. If you want to do research into/get brainwashed by Russian propaganda, nothing is stopping you here.
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Russia Today is banned, for one
You mean the TV station lost broadcasting-rights, or you mean the website it actually banned? Cause the website is certainly accessible for me from my European country, although that does not rule out that it is banned in some European countries.
The website rt.com is banned in the whole EU due to a decret by von der Leyen which bypassed parliament. It's trivial to bypass since it's "only" a DNS block but it's still censorship (no matter how you think about the content of RT). Same for Sputnik and the relevant TV channels.
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#433What content bans does Europe have? /Confused European
One is Russian media, just as Russia bans European media. Also the world's largest library is banned in Germany.
Piracy is illegal in most countries. Unless you mean the American Library of Congress, but that's an American decision, not a European one.
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#434It's a waste of resources, but please do it! The entire "European Union censors" narrative is a hoax [1], so the portal will achieve nothing, but you've got to do what you've got to do!
[1] First, the EU countries have much higher World Press Freedom Index than the US. Second, once you start reading how little there is of the alleged "censorship" in the EU, you realize it's a no-brainer aiming to protect people.
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#435I just chaired a session at the FOCI conference earlier today, where people were talking about Internet censorship circumvention technologies and how to prevent governments from blocking them. I'd like to remind everyone that the U.S. government has been one the largest funders of that research for decades. Some of it is under USAGM (formerly BBG, the parent of RFE/RL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agen…
But part of Agency has just been defunded
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for...
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#436Then won’t foreign governments just ban freedom.gov? This problem has already been solved with networks like Tor and I2P. It seems like it would be more strategic to fund those projects instead.
US can probably use their soft power to influence them not to do that. Also would imagine the US gov could also set up some more censorship resistant access methods.
No government can stand up to the might of La Liga
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The Americans are just as bad when it comes to intellectual property (70 years after the death of the author or 95 years after publication). By American copyright standards, you can read The Silmarillion for free around 2072. The difference in approach (American companies suing and financially ruining a select few downloaders versus European lobbyists going attempting to block the distribution points) makes piracy sl…
I can read that for free, and even hang on to it for a couple of weeks, as soon as the library opens today. Actually I don't need to wait, because it's available immediately over the Internet in eBook format, with my library card. There are also CDs, DVDs, and on-demand audio/video available with a library card. I visited a library across town, and many sections were given over to video games for various popular cons…
I can access almost every book and every paper that exist in seconds over the internet...
I also got a job in science and I think it's partly because I read a lot of papers (illegaly) since years.
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I have heard of RT lying but I have never actually seen examples of specific lies. Is there any list out there where they list any specific ones? If they do it a lot, it should be quite easy, no?
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?disinfo_keyword...
This is a propaganda website funded by the EU.