[HN Gopher] The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Un...
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       The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic
        
       Author : mrzool
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-01-19 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (torrentfreak.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (torrentfreak.com)
        
       | wait_a_minute wrote:
       | I don't trust the nanny state of the EU, or of any nation, to be
       | able to block "illegal content" this way. Today it's "think of
       | the children" fearmongering to justify it. Tomorrow it's gulag
       | for anyone who isn't on board with whatever orthodoxy takes hold
       | of the EU.
       | 
       | Dark times ahead if someone like Macron, for example, can block
       | content he deems illegal. They will strip people of a voice even
       | more aggressively than they'd like to do right now.
        
       | junon wrote:
       | I don't see how this is remotely feasible...
        
         | bradwood wrote:
         | I was wondering about this too. Setting aside DNS over HTTPS, I
         | can't see it either.
         | 
         | Will every router in the EU do L4 switching to rewrite traffic
         | to port 53?
         | 
         | Assuming it can even be pulled off, I can only see if failing
         | badly.
        
           | firebaze wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
        
             | salawat wrote:
             | Strictly adhering to Hanlon's Razor tells us we should find
             | that poor unfortunate Nigerian Prince who was too stupid to
             | get out of his own way.
        
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