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Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by throwaway140126 »

dgellow wrote: post #442
sunaookami wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by Helmut10001 »

schoen wrote: post #38

I 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…

This is somewhat counterintuitive: The US is the only country I know where most newspapers and government services use strict geoblocks to prevent me from accessing US sites in Europe. Conversely, I've never had any problems accessing European sites from the US. I know this is for a different set of reasons (likely GDPR cookie law or similar), but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most people I know use VPNs these days to make their traffic appear to come from whatever country they need.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by eagleal »

raincole wrote: post #359
shevy-java wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That does not compute.

It computes quite well. > It was a 2021 case involving Andy Grote, a local politician, that captured the country's attention. Grote complained about a tweet that called him a "pimmel," a German word for the male anatomy. His complaint triggered a police raid and accusations of excessive censorship by the government. A police raid for calling a politician a dick. Let it sink. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-onlin…

In Italy there's a politician named Gasparri who has made a career (30+ years) of barring himself behind Parlamentary immunity and insulting on citizens/journalists. When they respond he sues them for libel or similar asking moral damages.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by dominicrose »

drnick1 wrote: post #335
amarant wrote: post #168

What content bans does Europe have? /Confused European

Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things.

A major porn site's reaction to France requiring age verification was quite funny, they replaced their content by complaints instead of implementing the verification. Liberty isn't always a good thing, allowing teens to simply click to say they're adults doesn't cut it.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by herbst »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #492
schoen wrote: post #38

I 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…

This is somewhat counterintuitive: The US is the only country I know where most newspapers and government services use strict geoblocks to prevent me from accessing US sites in Europe. Conversely, I've never had any problems accessing European sites from the US. I know this is for a different set of reasons (likely GDPR cookie law or similar), but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most peop…

This. I regularly face geo blocks from American websites. Like literally at least once a week. It's very common for whatever reason for smaller US shops, newspapers any size and other random sites.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by Podrod »

generic92034 wrote: post #402
raincole wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It computes quite well. > It was a 2021 case involving Andy Grote, a local politician, that captured the country's attention. Grote complained about a tweet that called him a "pimmel," a German word for the male anatomy. His complaint triggered a police raid and accusations of excessive censorship by the government. A police raid for calling a politician a dick. Let it sink. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-onlin…

That was a overall very rarely occurring abuse of power of a politician in charge of leading local law enforcement. It was declared illegal later. And you take that as a proof for what about the whole of Germany?

Not just for Germany but apparently for the entire continent of Europe!

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by pjc50 »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #492
schoen wrote: post #38

I 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…

This is somewhat counterintuitive: The US is the only country I know where most newspapers and government services use strict geoblocks to prevent me from accessing US sites in Europe. Conversely, I've never had any problems accessing European sites from the US. I know this is for a different set of reasons (likely GDPR cookie law or similar), but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most peop…

And imgur has geoblocked the UK, which is extremely annoying as it was the reddit image host of choice.

It's going to be a weird set of content on this website. Are they going to livestream La Liga sports?

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

MASNeo wrote: post #388
b112 wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And truth.

Worse, half-truths and half-lies.

That's why diversity of sources is the only way to escape censorship: you get one half truth from one source, another half truth from another source, then two halves make whole truth.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by oblio »

sunaookami wrote: post #444
tantalor wrote: post #218

That's not very "America First" Why are my taxes paying for benefits for Europeans? They already killed USAID.

I like that the US government finally speaks out about the rampant censorship from the EU regime but I wouldn't trust a state VPN. But they put the topic on the radar. Hope they can pressure enough to abolish the DSA. And USAID was just funding for propaganda outlets.

> I like that the US government finally speaks out about the rampant censorship from the EU regime

Are you a EU citizen?

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