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French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

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Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

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post #68

This looks like such a non issue to be honest. Government branches should have technical and legal capabilities to block domestic and foreign hosts. Legitimate foreign service providers, should either comply with local government, cease operations in that country, or be prepared for war.

Wouldn't China's GFW be considered a good thing by that argument?

Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

#113

If it is what public DNS providers do, then they should get a bad reputation and then people should not use them. People can make their own, and/or to just use IP addresses directly (or other methods) if they know what they are from other sources. You can also use the hosts file.

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Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

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post #112
post #109

I wonder if it's possible to just use Yandex DNS. Russia won't comply obviously.

With this DNS provider, I would be equally if not more worried about what the Russian government forces Yandex to block or censor.

Just add 1.1.1.1 as the second dns server

Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

#118
post #76

The title on the website is “Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention”. Curious why Cloudflare has been singled out in the submission title?

Fixed now, although leaving out the court order is also misleading. If anyone wants to suggest an accurate, neutral title that gets it all under the 80 char limit, we can change it again.

Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco will poison DNS to Block Piracy as Ordered by Court

Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

#119
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple have repeatedly thrown their customers under the bus especially in China. At least Google had the courage to withdraw entirely.

Google never left China, they literally just moved to a new building on the other side of the road (in Zhongguancun, Beijing). They even “left a couple of boxes there”[1]. [1] Blum, Andrew, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. New York, Ecco, 2012. https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_p9b6

You can't even install the play store in China... Google hasn't been accessible there since in 15 years.

You can buy an iPhone there today, and Apple has agreements with China to hand over user data and has done so in the past.

Re: French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should we not want this when the law is bad? The government should face pushback from all sides when attempting something odious.

It's a democratic country. The voters decide if the laws their government passes are bad or not.

There is actually no evidence this is the case, and there is evidence it is the opposite - that the less voters support something, the more likely it is to pass.
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