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potatototoo99yesterday at 10:42 PM7 repliesview on HN

No it isn't. For example in my EU country I can see the list of all websites blocked, and all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting (legal betting is allowed, but must register and pay taxes). That and rt.com. I can also say/post whatever I want in social media except stalk and harass individual people. There is no "censorship" at all compared to virtually anywhere else in the world, US included.


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AnthonyMousetoday at 4:11 AM

> all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting

Does that include all of the sites that share the same IP addresses as those sites?

For that matter, you're posting a reply to an article about a European country blocking the website of a generic US government VPN service, and the service isn't even operating yet. So not only have they graduated to censoring VPNs, they're now censoring a website whose only content is political criticism of their other censorship.

axustoday at 4:30 AM

I'd love to see the link to your country's blocklist.

stinkbeetletoday at 1:50 AM

> No it isn't.

Yes it is.

> For example in my EU country I can see the list of all websites blocked, and all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting (legal betting is allowed, but must register and pay taxes). That and rt.com.

You provided a counter-example that disproves your claim in the next sentence. I'm just flabbergasted.

kvemkontoday at 12:54 AM

> That and ...

lenta.ru ? (aha, management personnel has been replaced 2014 [1])

[1] https://t.me/systemasystema/89 [RU]

SanjayMehtatoday at 1:19 AM

Blocking RT is not censorship?

Nor is sanctioning your own journalists? Or a former intelligence agent, a Swiss national who worked for NATO, and now lives in Belgium?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969722

CamperBob2today at 12:49 AM

That's normalization.