Follow
A German private industry consortium started censoring access to websites at the network level (via DNS). Right now based on their own (arbitrary, unqualified, unchecked) assessment of copyright violation.
(German vid) https://youtu.be/DSDjgK9PdTE
NB that this is basically a cartel, and they operate *exactly* as you'd expect.
Wondering why ISPs participate in this. - Bans reduce the attractiveness of their service.
@srs not banning makes you look like you support fascists, decreasing attractiveness
plausibly it also gets feds breathing down your back
I find it entirely reasonable that "hate speech" will soon be a reason for bans as well. - After all, AWS did that already, and they're just as private.
Remedies: encrypted DNS (as of yet), VPNs (putting you at the mercy of, at least, some other corp), TOR.