Topic: ICANN and "DNS abuse"

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I will not comment on this topic at the time of posting this forum post because i'm sleep deprived, but i think it's important to raise awareness about this. Here is a link: https://www.article19.org/resources/icann-content-moderation-at-the-infrastructure-level-is-a-dangerous-move/

Please be aware that the page i linked is not unbiased, but biased in favor of freedom of expression and freedom of information. Article 19 is an international organization that works to defend and promote freedom of expression and freedom of information. It is important to check multiple sources of information and take different views into account to be well informed.

Seems like old news, yeah. This has been used for 20+ years, both legitimately and not. Like, I'm sure we're all familiar with The Pirate Bay and controversial sites like ED that had to keep changing TLDs every week or three. The real fuckery will be if a browser refuses to use 3rd-party DNS, or requires signed entries for them, effectively allowing revocation of domains without any obvious workarounds ala Hosts file or your own DNS server. Given how damn slow DNS can be already when doing lots of requests, I can imagine that not being a popular decision to make it even less reliable, though. ;)

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