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I think they don't actually block DNS queries, mostly related to football (soccer for Americans) pirating, that are required to be blocked in Italy, France and

I think they don't actually block DNS queries, mostly related to football (soccer for Americans) pirating, that are required to be blocked in Italy, France and Portugal; so probably they break Italian, French and Portugese laws. (Don't quote me on that.) See https://flashstart.com/opendns-not-available-in-france-and-portugal-why-not-and-how-to-resolve-this/ https://flashstart.com/opendns-not-available-in-france-and-p... and similar Also they don't seem to block Russia Today, which might be required in other countries? But that might be on a different layer. Not up to date on that.

pimterry 1y ago
How do those regulations work? Is it that anybody providing DNS in any way must block resolution of these addresses, or is it that anybody acting as an ISP must block resolution on their default DNS service? The latter seems more likely - it's much easier to regulate businesses providing a defined service rather than all servers supporting an arbitrary protocol.
- karel-3d 1y ago
  I don't know the details. They have ordered Google, Cisco and Cloudflare to block these on their public resolvers (so not just ISPs). I will google "Piracy Shield" to see the details. edit: it seems it's local court orders, ordering those specific companies to poison the DNS; it's not a law. So DNS4EU is fine for now.
supermatt 1y ago
It is the ISPs operating within the country that have been ordered to censor those. Those aren’t enforceable at EU level.
- karel-3d 1y ago
  Cloudflare and Google are not ISPs?
  - supermatt 1y ago
    Sure they are - and if they operate in those countries then they have to abide by court orders, obviously.