They did similar things to block the pirate bay, I guess 💀

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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (14 children)

In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Germany's been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a "penis" on social media.) It's fucked.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That one at least got cleared up in court, and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that (not to mention the societal backlash). In many cases it's even legitimate to have police involved, like with wild racist deathwishes in Facebook… but they indeed went way too far in too many cases.

    Surely some more Chatcontrol and big cousin Palantir will fix that, right? …right? 🫠

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Recently they switched to a more public court-order based approach.

    But my thought on this is as well: Once their domain name servers are configured according to law, can they force us to not use other domain name services?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Theoretically an ISP can block all outgoing queries to the DNS port 53 except to whitelisted servers, but now DNS over HTTPS exists, haven’t looked into how blockable that one is.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They probably can just block IPs of foreign DNS but I suspect there's ways of mirroring around that.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    There is DoT, DoH and oblivious dns techniques. The problem is - users will have to configure those and aint nobody got time for that.

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