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ivan_gammeltoday at 6:53 AM4 repliesview on HN

if you are in Germany, try opening ria.ru. It’s not like we are deprived of something worthy - it is Russian propaganda after all, but it tells enough about freedom of speech.


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jeroenhdtoday at 8:08 AM

With the German border maybe 10 minutes to the east of me, I can open that website just fine. Seems like an exclusively German problem, not a European one.

I don't think foreign propaganda was ever exempt from freedom of speech here in Europe (except the countries and regimes which lacked free speech, of course), it just wasn't much of a problem before the internet made opinions so easy to broadcast.

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josefrichtertoday at 8:01 AM

I'm in Czechia, next to Germany. Just opened Ria Novosti and Russia Today in two other tabs, nothing blocked here.

micwtoday at 6:58 AM

I am. It just opens. But I can't read russian ^^

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heinrich5991today at 9:41 AM

Works for me.