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▲ tourmalinetaco 4 hours ago

There was, once, but that has decayed rapidly alongside the centralization of the Internet. There are very few websites people even use nowadays, and many of them block legal expressions due to ideological and economic pressures. Payment processors and banks regularly restrict businesses and individuals from legal commercial activities, examples are Pornhub/MindGeek, Steam, and firearm dealers.

There is also now a precedent for T1 ISPs to block whatever legal websites they wish, and there is little recourse to be had there either. Not to mention arbitrary legal pressure for ISPs is also precedent now due to Judge Katherine Polk Failla.

On top of that, several EU countries have been using DNS blocks to prevent piracy and access to “bad” websites for ages, which has further been eroding the Big-I Internet into various separate internets.

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police...

https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-will-leave-franc...