Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly-named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to control what is available online, no court orders required. Piracy Shield went live in December, and has just issued its first …

  • Saik0AEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    DNS as a protocol is in general clear text. Your provider can see what you query regardless.

      • Saik0AEnglish
        33·
        10 months ago

        Root servers don’t support that. Nothing would stop governments from telling all ISPs in the country to block all DNS servers that don’t comply.

        Edit: Missed a word.