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by jd_paton 1089 days ago
Source? I’m in NL and I can access it just fine. I use Cloudflare for DNS though
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I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.
No excuse for that censorship honestly.
Eliminating enemy propaganda is extremely common and a long running practice. It's less censorship and more self defense.
Looking at it from that perspective it makes a kind of sense, although I think it is less defensible in modern day with the internet.
It's more defensible! Propaganda is far, far, less effective as a blind radio broadcast or air pamphlets than micro-targeted interactive sessions intricately engineered to maximize neurological reinforcement loops. Absolutely insidious.
No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed.

This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against.

Then again, given how inept people are at thinking for themselves, maybe a nanny state is what's best.