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> Maybe you're thinking of trademarks as some bureaucratic intellectual property nonsense but they are practically important as well.

I do think their importance is vastly overstated yes but that's another debate.

Right now domains are also suspended for a lot of reasons, typosquatting being pretty much the only one I would describe as a valid reason. And the downsides of allowing domain suspension seems greater than the upsides.

I'd be okay changing my mind on the subject if DNS was used as intended and not as a political tool to suppress newspapers or block pirate websites.

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I haven't read RFC 882 all that thoroughly, but the section of it titled "Authority and administrative control of domains" strongly suggests that DNS from its very beginning allowed the name servers to implement whatever policies they wanted over the domain(s) they have authority over, so... DNS is actually working as intended?

You can't solve social problems with technical solutions, usually. One exception, for the time being, is Tor. But that's only temporary until they ban it.

We take a free internet for granted, but in places like China, the government knows exactly what you're doing on the internet. They have to, because they route your packets, and they won't send your packets to places they aren't already spying on. No technological solution can change that, except possibly by constructing a physically parallel internet, and that stops working when...

An FSF member recommended Tor to Uighurs. An Uighur responded: "You don't understand. They aren't just monitoring my Internet. They're living in my house."

> You can't solve social problems with technical solutions, usually.

I'd argue that historically it's the opposite, most social changes came from technical changes.

It's not about making it impossible to block websites but to increase the cost of doing it further.

There's a lot of in between places from Sweden to China and raising costs of doing the bad thing globally works.

Does DoH not solve this?

I don't think so because domains can still be suspended. It does solve some of the issues though

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