i'm sure many eu citizens will be happy to have a dns option not reliant on american companies
as for securing an externally available resolver, standard rules apply (disable zone transfers etc)
But if I still lived there, I would have more trust in US companies to be honest. I actually use US-based DNS to this day, Cloudflare is my number one choice.
By the way, this is from a comment in a Reddit thread linked in this HN thread:
> they want to sanction unlicensed messaging apps, hosting services and websites that don’t spy on users (and impose criminal penalties)
> mandatory data retention, all your online activity must be tied to your identity
> end of privacy friendly VPN’s and other services
> cooperate with hardware manufacturers to ensure lawful access by design (backdoors for phones and computers)
> And much, much more. And this law isn’t aimed towards big companies, all communication service providers are explicitly in scope no matter how small or open source.
> A mass surveillance law being written by unknown lobbyists behind closed doors, demanding that the EU should monitor the internet more than Russia, being pushed by the EU commission. Should be the biggest news of the decade, but isn’t.
> Also, EU commission (Ursula, Virkkunen, Brunner as the key players) are using the same high level group as a key source in their ProtectEU plan, which is their strategy for 2029 and includes restricting encryption.
Seriously, EU is slowly turning into some communist superstate. And with the technology that exists now, it'll be way easier to control people compared than -say- back in Soviet Russia. EU also don't want people to have much cash at home, will not allow people to get a lot of money from ATM, etc...
Seriously, this happens several times a year and always gets rejected by the actual lawmakers.
> We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
Bad thing that mechanism even exist.
>And the fact they're scared to let anyone know who wrote the proposal says a lot.
True, that's absolutely against an "open society" Pun intended. ;)
>>In practice the Council would frequently ignore whatever Parliament might suggest and even sometimes reach an agreement before receiving Parliament's opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_pro...
That's not true!
Communist State's have at least real leaders/parties and a vision for the future. The EU is turning it into a surveillance state in fear from itself (direct?-democracy), fear to take a seat (responsibility) in global matters (France and some others maybe excluded from that that statement) and fear to impose already existing laws (because illegal migration gives us cheap labor aka "modern slavery").