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A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website (lina.sh)

submitted 1 week ago by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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They did similar things to block the pirate bay, I guess 💀

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[-] sudo@programming.dev 146 points 1 week ago

In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 87 points 1 week ago

Germany's been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a "penis" on social media.) It's fucked.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 58 points 1 week ago

Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the "crime".

There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

At least it got Streisanded and now everyone knows Andy is 1 pimmel

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago

That one at least got cleared up in court, and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that (not to mention the societal backlash). In many cases it's even legitimate to have police involved, like with wild racist deathwishes in Facebook… but they indeed went way too far in too many cases.

Surely some more Chatcontrol and big cousin Palantir will fix that, right? …right? 🫠

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that

The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

UK also arrests people for online comments

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for "Plasticine Action" T-shirts.

[-] helloworld@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago

Recently they switched to a more public court-order based approach.

But my thought on this is as well: Once their domain name servers are configured according to law, can they force us to not use other domain name services?

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago

Theoretically an ISP can block all outgoing queries to the DNS port 53 except to whitelisted servers, but now DNS over HTTPS exists, haven’t looked into how blockable that one is.