Embarrassing, how the media got played to do advertisement for them. Goodbye, journalism.

That's what they should be, they are ISPs...

I have updated all my filter-lists several times, but this article still shows up.

Thats true, a lot of great programmers come from eastern Europe. For example MPlayer is a Hungary based project. And I remember an article that said that many writers of viruses come from Bulgaria. I think the reason for this may be the fact, that in many communist countries computer scientists tried to reverse engineer western technology, and therefor had a very low-level knowledge of things most people in the west hadn't. I think it makes a great difference if you started programming in Pascal or in Assembly. Another reason might be that most natural sciences are quite expensive to teach. For Biology and Chemistry you need laboratories. For Computer Sciences, you only need a pen and a piece of paper. So I think that many people in eastern European countries have a very good understanding of the way computers work, due to the history of their teachers/parents.

Wasn't there a project by Cult of the Dead Cow a few years back that should be a p2p browser? So if you are in a country where some site is blocked you can access it via other users from other countries? I remember something like Freebird. Here it says it was called Peekabooty. https://training.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2027 Maybe something like this could be really useful in the future.

This trick is rather old. Discredit the enemies of your employer, to make your employer look better. Maybe you could have thought of something a little more subtle?