| ▲ | drnick1 4 hours ago |
| Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things. |
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| ▲ | dominicrose an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| A major porn site's reaction to France requiring age verification was quite funny, they replaced their content by complaints instead of implementing the verification. Liberty isn't always a good thing, allowing teens to simply click to say they're adults doesn't cut it. |
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| ▲ | josefrichter 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m in the EU and haven’t encountered any of these, except the copyright restrictions - which is really a different matter. |
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| ▲ | ivan_gammel 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | ivan_gammel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Unfortunately EU is now developing practice of extrajudicial sanctions on EU and national level, targeting both media and individuals expressing points of views alternative to position of Brussels or Berlin. Vance was surprisingly right back then in Munich. It’s not just Russian propaganda, but now it is conveniently used as a blanket cover to sanction even EU citizens (see case of German journalist Hüseyin Doğru, whose only connection to Russia was a hosting of his pro-Palestinian outlet on a platform affiliated with RT). |
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| ▲ | josefrichter 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm in Czechia, next to Germany. Just opened Ria Novosti and Russia Today in two other tabs, nothing blocked here. | |
| ▲ | heinrich5991 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Works for me. | |
| ▲ | micw 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I am. It just opens. But I can't read russian ^^ | | |
| ▲ | ivan_gammel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Looks like German firewall has more holes than Russian or Chinese one. Are you using VPN? It’s still blocked for me. | | |
| ▲ | throwaway140126 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Germany uses DNS blocks.. So you can circumvent the censorship by using a DNS provider different than the DNS provider of your ISP. |
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| ▲ | viraptor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is another "in Europe" thing. There's no "in Europe". Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, etc. will all have different rules. |
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| ▲ | warkdarrior 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ooooh, if freedom.gov helped bypass copyrights on sports and streaming websites, that would be fantastic! |
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| ▲ | anthk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Spaniard here. No, we don't. Every country has different laws. The European Union share some laws but not these. |
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| ▲ | dgellow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No? |
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| ▲ | jusssi 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| List please. Surely there is a wiki page you can drop a link to, right? |
