In Germany the citizens must change their DNS to block the German government control of their lives. Too many bad laws to keep giving them your consent to be governed.

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aleph_minus_one 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> In Germany the citizens must change their DNS to block the German government control of their lives.

It's not the government directly, but what is called in German "Flucht ins Privatrecht" [escape into private law], meaning that the government "outsources" such activities to private organizations that are only very indirectly charged by the government (implying that you cannot use public law to sue the government, but you have to sue the respective organization indirectly. Also, since the relationship between the government and the respective organization is very indirect, the politicians can claim that they are not responsible for the organization's wrongdoings - something that is often not easy to disproof).

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layer8 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s explicitly not the government, it’s an independent private association of ISPs and copyright holders.

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Ms-J 4 days ago | parent [-]

The blocks wouldn't exist without the government.

From https://cuii.info/en/about-us/

The CUII was founded by Internet access providers and rightholders and coordinates the implementation of court blocking procedures and the enforcement of court blocking orders.

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layer8 4 days ago | parent [-]

The article was about how they are deciding to block websites on their own authority, without court orders.

	▲	Ms-J 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The article is speculating on why a test domain owned by Telefonica is blocked. The government issues many blocking orders and the CUII complies.