2y ago

Trying to access Sputnik News but apparently it's blocked by the EU

(I don't know why it also says Pirate Bay, since I clicked on the Sputnik News URL)

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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.
yeah cause 'muh freezedom o speezch' tells me that russian media is poison that'll make me hate ukraine and the west. Its for my own safety after all.
Is the URL you’re blocked from https://sputnikglobe.com/?
- Oh that one works, thank you
  
  No problem! What URL were you trying to go to?
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.
Bruger du en VPN, siden det er på hollandsk?
- Jeg er halv Hollandsk og bor i Holland så derfor siden er i Hollandsk
  
  Forstået, have en god dag
https://sputnikglobe.com/ IF THIS DONT WORK USE https://archive.is/ RT TV https://odysee.com/@RT:fd?view=content
Does anyone know if Sputnik News has an RSS feed? I tried looking before but couldn't find it for my news reader.
Why would you want to, though?
- Why not? They are actually a decent news source and they often provide points of view that have been entirely scrubbed from the media in the west.
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.
- And who told you that, the liberal western media? Sputnik and RT may have a pro-Russia bias, just like CGTN has a pro-China bias, but they are actually way more reliable than western mainstream media. The notion that they are on the same level of fake news as RFA is nothing more than imperialist propaganda.
- Rare Sleepless One L
- Do you think you should be blocked from accessing BBC for similar reasons? If not why not?
  
  Yes.
- They wear their biases on their sleeve for sure, but I wouldn't say they are anything like RFA/RFE. I wouldn't say to use them (or any singular source honestly) as your sole source of news, but they're not a bad one to have in the rotation.

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