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Rhetoric is somewhat off, but I have to use 1.1.1.1 to access Anna's Archive from Germany, so he has a point.

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Want to mention that not all German ISPs participate in IP-infringing content blocking. I use one that does not.

Setup AdGuard and never look back

How about Quad9?

I'll have to check. I assume they are not immune to decisions of European courts either?

Does Germany require that all DNS providers block Anna's Archive? I thought that was mostly handed for ISP DNS providers.

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Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.

Most western countries who care about IP have banned piracy. I'm not anti piracy but it's silly to compare.

Back in the day it was US media companies which started the big war against piracy and for the use of DRM. It was pushed by US media companies and the US government upon Europe. Same as with software patents. It's weird that now US companies complain about local media rights holders doing their censorship thing when the whole thing was started by the US.

I'm not sure, does US not block websites by DNS? Wrt Anna's Archive they've gone as far as revoking its main domain

US owns the registrars, they just deregister domains they don't like and show some sort of FBI logo instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

> Participants: Republican lawmakers in red states

oh weird, it's the opposite of what you said.

Politics isn't the exclusive hobby of the united states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/the-spd-parties...

And by the way, in the same wikipedia link you posted, there's documentation of Democrats also banning books.

What book banning are you referencing, then? it's all very vague

I demand the RIGHT to get media for free without paying for it! And I equate this with a ban on literature!

Not every comment about Germany requires a mention of a dark past.

Doesn't require it, but in this case it sure is relevant

It does not, since the context is absolutely not the same. Closing a major piracy actor VS actions that led to a world war.

Banning books is the same as banning books. Whether it's in the name of censorship or anti-piracy

Not sure you can call it censorship if it's the author of the book who doesn't want you to access it for free. I know there are a few levels of indirection here, but with a few notable exceptions authors are normally against their books being pirated.

I personally sure want Anna's Archive staying up, but comparing it to nazis burning books is a bit too much IMO

Because the US doesn't act against copyright infringement? They just suspended the Annas Archive .org domain

At least we don't ban books from Libraries, because they contain the true history or "wrong thought" and Republicans don't like that

Don't even need to rely to anti-piracy to find book banners. US public schools continue to accelerate their book banning tendencies.

* https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ * https://www.ala.org/news/2025/04/american-library-associatio... * https://cdhe.colorado.gov/banned-book-list

Book bans at department of defense high schools are resulting directly from this administration's executive orders.

* https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dodea-book-bans

We need to keep fighting for the right to read freely.

Meanwhile, waiting for Cloudflare to walk away from their US government contracts to protest these blatant free speech attacks.

This isn't banning books, it's akin to banning a book store. If a book store chain isn't paying their taxes and gets shut down, the books have not been banned or censored.

I mean when Germany is jailing people for being "offensive" it's hard not too.

You are confidently incorrect, very impressive.

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