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by Volker_W 1418 days ago

German Vodafone customer here: It seems to be blocked properly not just on DNS level. Changing DNS does not fix it.

$ ping rt.com

PING rt.com (91.215.41.4) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- rt.com ping statistics ---

293 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 295812ms

I'm not a Putin/Russia supporter, nor do I read rt.com, but I want the ability to hear what the enemy says.

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5e92cb50239222b 1418 days ago

> but I want the ability to hear what the enemy says.

Read propaganda written for internal consumption then. I find it much more illuminating. Maybe through Google Translate, I think it's quite decent at ru → en translation these days.

Some of the main outlets off the top of my head:

https://kommersant.ru

Or through an aggregator:

https://yandex.ru/news/

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int_19h 1417 days ago

Getting acquainted with both kinds of propaganda is informative. If you compare RT and internal outlets side by side, you see which stuff gets said for which audience.

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the_why_of_y 1417 days ago

Very much so. Example: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/11/11/the-two-faces-of-rt-...

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fosefx 1418 days ago

I think that's because the rt server does not respond to ICMP. I use 1.1.1.1 and can access rt.com just fine (also German Vodafone customer here)

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ajsnigrutin 1418 days ago

try curl. DNS is blocked for me, but ip traffic works, just not ICMP (probably blocked on RT side)

$ curl http://91.215.41.4 <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>DDOS-GUARD</title><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">....

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