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.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 days ago (2 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?

[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At this point you can copy Chinas great firewall I guess.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

People do get around that sometimes.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 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.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In Firefox its just a flip of a button. Private DNS.

I think it uses Cloudflare by default when activated, but there are also others like quad9 9.9.9.9

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

By default you choose between Cloudflare and NextDNS.

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