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If you reside in a country where those laws apply, that is. Meanwhile in Australia, government agencies can obtain your phone and internet ‘metadata’ without a
by Bnshsysjab 7y ago
If you reside in a country where those laws apply, that is.
Meanwhile in Australia, government agencies can obtain your phone and internet ‘metadata’ without a warrant and (ISPs^?) DNS servers are required by law to blacklist certain domains.
^ I assume ISPs because I have no issue with blacklists while using CF/Google DNS.
- colonwqbang 7y agoDNS blocking is a thing in some EU countries too, but maybe not at the same scale.
- teekert 7y agoYes, in the Netherlands all major ISPs block most Pirate Bay proxies. Hooray for TOR.
- colonwqbang 7y agoYou don't need TOR to get around DNS blocks (assuming that's how your ISP is blocking TPB). I configure my router to use Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8 and that completely circumvents the "block".
- dannyw 7y agoTo be fair the DNS blacklisting requires court approval, so it does satisfy principles of justice.
- Bnshsysjab 7y agoYour point is correct and fair based on then way I wrote the comment but it wasn’t my intention to mislead. I need to learn how to ragetype better. I do think it’s super interesting that the additional gambling site bans happened reasonably quiet last week. I say reasonably as I play poker, and care if poker is banned, but agree banning gambling is a net positive. Even then I didn’t hear about the ban until 4 days after it happened.