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That's exactly what they claim. The objection argues that these blocks are not comparable though, mainly since the malware domains are filtered globally, where that's obviously impossible for local filters based on regional court decisions.

They went after Quad9 (and not Google, Cisco, and Cloudflare) because Google, Cisco, and Cloudflare are all still hiding behind the Northern California District Court, where there are no consequences for privacy violations. And the US isn't a signatory to the Lugano Convention, whereas Switzerland is. Sony began this attack just a few days after Quad9 re-domiciled to Switzerland. An unexpected and unfortunate cost of having a binding privacy policy. I gave a talk about this at the last DEF CON:

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2029/DEF%20CON%2029%20vid...

> Google DNS

Google's 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 offering is actually very forgiving. Most pirate sites now have multiple TLDs and advertise the latest TLD in use on social media. New TLDs usually arrive when there is pressure by Google or even LEAs to censor specific domains.