(I don’t know why it also says Pirate Bay, since I clicked on the Sputnik News URL)
They do it by forcing DNS server operators to remove certain entries. You can get around it by selecting a non-censoring or non-EU based DNS provider or running your own resolver.
I remember German libs jumping with joy back in late 2021 when Germany blocked all remaining “evil misinformation spreading Russian state media.”
But supposedly these western countries have “freedom of speech” and ebil ccp have that big bad firewall
In looking into this again I found a supposedly serious legal breakdown that literally says that in the intro paragraph.
To address legitimate questions of double standards that will come up in the wake of the inevitable whataboutism, it should be stressed that the Union’s measures differ decisively from any authoritarian censorship by virtue of the Union’s character as a community of law.
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-ban-of-rt-and-sputnik/
The case for blocking Russian media is made on the basis that it is “propaganda for war,” yet one cannot seriously argue that what western media is doing isn’t propaganda for war.
I think that’s for the better. Sputnik is a fake news russian propaganda outlet like russia today. It’s the russian equivalent of RFA/RFE/VOA.
Do you think you should be blocked from accessing BBC for similar reasons? If not why not?
Yes.
Do they mean Sputnik blocks EU address or EU blocks Sputnik?
EU blocks Russian media. Meanwhile the European Court of Human Rights punishes Russia for blocking Russian content.
