Why do courts do stupid things like this. It's easy to distribute a HOSTS file with the same information. Are they going to forbid that too?
The only people inconvenienced by this will be those who were only casually interested anyway.
The only people inconvenienced by this will be those who were only casually interested anyway.
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
The real problem is that the people not willing to accept that will then be offended when this invariably fails to be effective, and lobby for ever-increasing levels of oppression in an attempt to make it work, when the only way to actually make it work is a totalitarian security state incompatible with a free society.
We can't allow ourselves to be dragged into that dystopia inch by inch.
I wish the long haired folks in the 70s had thought of that angle too. We have onion routing but it’s hardly the same thing when using it puts involves putting oneself in a minority with some questionable company.
But as long as your services are opened to EU citizens, you are, in principle, liable for violating EU laws.
In practice, Google has an operating branch in France, so they are weak.
Even if they didn't have the branch, in theory, extraterritoriality can still be applied between relatively friendly countries; though taking lot of time and bureaucracy.
Even with enemies: Russian company is totally safe from US law, and vice-versa, but they could get under sanctions for "promoting terrorism" (in some way, this could also be argued for these DNS servers as well if we push it a little bit).