It's part of the EU sanctions, EU ISPs are required to block certain Russian sites. But they didn't specify how, that's left up to the countries to figure out afaik. But as you say, some of the what has been done barely qualifies.
Here's my personal experience with this:
Germany does exactly what you describe, the bare minimum to say "we're blocking" --- DNS omitting certain sites.
Spain is doing deep packet inspection, blocking DNS requests that lookup RT, so DNS over HTTPS or through a VPN is a must. Additionally, they're also reading the SNI in TLS requests and blocking that way. If you try accessing RT in pure unencrypted HTTP you're get some fortigate blocking message back.
Hell, even amongst my peers, I'm continually shocked at how many people have never used gpg, ever. And, anecdotally, the number gets lower as age gets lower. Young people aren't using it. It's dying.
they shut down their nuke plants and the nordstream pipelines were destroyed by Biden (an act of war btw, but somehow Russia's their enemy and we're their ally)
Yeah, Truth Social and Gettr censor and suck. Gab is much better in this regard (RT has a presence there for example and Gab won't cancel them https://gab.com/RTintl)
New Zealand wants everyone to take a covid vaccine every 6 months.
Oregon wants to make mask mandates permanent.
Thousands of vaccine injured. How many athletes are dying from the vax? Lots and it's on camera.
The way back to normalcy is to take back our freedom and end the covid tyranny. Then we hold the participants responsible with Nuremberg 2.0 trials. Not just politicians, but Bill Gates, Fauci, drug companies, doctors, nurses, Big Tech, Big Media, etc.
I don't know how we'll ever be able to trust the medical profession ever again after this