[mkl95]

I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.

[PrimeMcFly]

No excuse for that censorship honestly.

[flangola7]

Eliminating enemy propaganda is extremely common and a long running practice. It's less censorship and more self defense.

[PrimeMcFly]

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.

[flangola7]

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.

[PrimeMcFly]

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.

[flangola7]

> No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed.

Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier. Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not - and that is assuming everything can and will be checked by every person, which isn't realistic.

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

It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that. Brainworms are an insidious contagion.