It’s worse than that. The EU is not only calling for social media companies and search engines to censor content but also for ISPs to censor content. With my German ISP, I can’t access www.rt.com anymore. It’s a blow against the core principles of net neutrality.
One aspect that’s worth noting is, that those EU bans at the moment only go for RT and Sputnik and not for other websites funded by Russia. I expect that this is a tactical decision as it’s easier to defend that policy publically. I would expect that other websites will soon follow. There is some chance that in a few months all those websites that were charged with being Russian misinformation when they published “COVID misinformation” will be attacked via the same mechanism.
Do you have any links to news coverage about the ISP-level ban? This says that Sweden has interpreted it that way, but I don’t see coverage of other countries. This claims that the order isn’t clear, but links to a secret order that specifically mentions ISPs and seems to also include blocking archive.org.
It’s worse than that. The EU is not only calling for social media companies and search engines to censor content but also for ISPs to censor content. With my German ISP, I can’t access www.rt.com anymore. It’s a blow against the core principles of net neutrality.
One aspect that’s worth noting is, that those EU bans at the moment only go for RT and Sputnik and not for other websites funded by Russia. I expect that this is a tactical decision as it’s easier to defend that policy publically. I would expect that other websites will soon follow. There is some chance that in a few months all those websites that were charged with being Russian misinformation when they published “COVID misinformation” will be attacked via the same mechanism.
Do you have any links to news coverage about the ISP-level ban? This says that Sweden has interpreted it that way, but I don’t see coverage of other countries. This claims that the order isn’t clear, but links to a secret order that specifically mentions ISPs and seems to also include blocking archive.org.
How is the ban implemented technically? DNS? IP?
I don’t know about the exact technical implication at the moment. I’m not even sure whether that’s uniform.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/02/eu-rt-sputnik-ban-live/ : “In addition to social media networks and video streaming services, EU officials said that in principle ISPs are also covered.”
Elon Musk seemed to say that he will ignore the request to block access on Starlink.
We will see how the lawsuit will go.