Don’t use this insecure bs DNS with censoring. Boycott Europe’s spyware/malware
Edit: think about french or germany… so porn is already blocked. + More blocked stuff
Edit2: When the EU funding expires at the end of 2025, DNS4EU is to be “commercialized”, i.e. transferred to operation by a profit-oriented company. However, this commercialization has already begun: The spin-off “Whalebone” is intended to help companies and government institutions to detect threats and prevent attacks via DNS.
ISP DNS blocking
In Germany, DNS blocks have been carried out by ISPs for some time now. At the same time, they want to push through data retention without cause, etc.
Well well, I was proven wrong :) I suppose the sites that didn’t want to carry out the ID checks (which I assume is the problem) gets blocked from the country’s side, that makes a lot of sense. I was actually thinking of Pornhub moving out of France and jumping to the wrong conclusion that surely all other porn sites are doing the same, but I suppose there are sites that just don’t care, resulting in Germany having to block the non-complying sites from their side.
Germany simply wants to be the pioneer in surveillance and would prefer to leave even China behind (there are already future plans for an alternative to the Chinese social credit system). So I was all the more surprised that a no to chat control came or is coming from Germany.
But surveillance and censorship are getting worse and worse at the same time as people want to make money from the public’s personal data…
We also sovereignly screwed up the EU cloud with lobbying that it is only operated by American companies.
Well, DNS blocks can be bypassed pretty quickly, but you can already see where it’s all going to end.
You seem very confused. Do you think that using a different DNS prevents blocking like the recent France porn block? It doesn’t.
Do you know why people use different DNS servers to the ones from their ISP? In some EU countries, in particular Germany, this is actually quite private already because data protection laws prevent the ISP from recording and using/selling the info.
You do understand that these servers aren’t run by government (s), right?
It’s pretty clear that’s why I mentioned Germany? Since in Germany blocking is used at DNS level…
So in which country are the servers located and which laws do the operators have to comply with?
Data retention, etc., is also something they really want to push through… then everything will be logged later…
Server on EU soil = no data protection or anything else.
At least in Germany, what happened is that several local courts upheld a decision to block Pornhub and Youporn. From personal experience, I can tell you there are no practical consequences so far, both sites are perfectly available.
Don’t use this insecure bs DNS with censoring. Boycott Europe’s spyware/malware
Edit: think about french or germany… so porn is already blocked. + More blocked stuff
Edit2: When the EU funding expires at the end of 2025, DNS4EU is to be “commercialized”, i.e. transferred to operation by a profit-oriented company. However, this commercialization has already begun: The spin-off “Whalebone” is intended to help companies and government institutions to detect threats and prevent attacks via DNS.
Ah well. :)
I might be proven wrong, but I don’t think the porn block is via DNS, much more likely that it’s blocked from the porn providers side via IP-ranges.
ISP DNS blocking In Germany, DNS blocks have been carried out by ISPs for some time now. At the same time, they want to push through data retention without cause, etc.
Blocked domains
Well well, I was proven wrong :) I suppose the sites that didn’t want to carry out the ID checks (which I assume is the problem) gets blocked from the country’s side, that makes a lot of sense. I was actually thinking of Pornhub moving out of France and jumping to the wrong conclusion that surely all other porn sites are doing the same, but I suppose there are sites that just don’t care, resulting in Germany having to block the non-complying sites from their side.
Germany simply wants to be the pioneer in surveillance and would prefer to leave even China behind (there are already future plans for an alternative to the Chinese social credit system). So I was all the more surprised that a no to chat control came or is coming from Germany. But surveillance and censorship are getting worse and worse at the same time as people want to make money from the public’s personal data… We also sovereignly screwed up the EU cloud with lobbying that it is only operated by American companies.
Well, DNS blocks can be bypassed pretty quickly, but you can already see where it’s all going to end.
You seem very confused. Do you think that using a different DNS prevents blocking like the recent France porn block? It doesn’t.
Do you know why people use different DNS servers to the ones from their ISP? In some EU countries, in particular Germany, this is actually quite private already because data protection laws prevent the ISP from recording and using/selling the info.
You do understand that these servers aren’t run by government (s), right?
It’s pretty clear that’s why I mentioned Germany? Since in Germany blocking is used at DNS level… So in which country are the servers located and which laws do the operators have to comply with? Data retention, etc., is also something they really want to push through… then everything will be logged later… Server on EU soil = no data protection or anything else.
Huh? Source on porn being blocked in all of France and Germany?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yelvlnzveo
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-Administrative-Court-Pornhub-and-YouPorn-remain-blocked-for-time-being-10436645.html
At least in Germany, what happened is that several local courts upheld a decision to block Pornhub and Youporn. From personal experience, I can tell you there are no practical consequences so far, both sites are perfectly available.
TIL. Thanks!