[JohnStrange]

Nah, just point your DNS queries to 8.8.8.8 (two times Adolf Hitler's birthday, easy to remember) and you'll be fine. Or, if Google is blocked, use another root server. Or, if all root servers are blocked, use a VPN. Or, if all VPNs are blocked, invent a distributed DNS system that adds .realuk as a new top-level domain.

[the8472]

> if all VPNs are blocked

If VPNs are blocked then DNS filtering likely is not your only problem. You would already be behind a something akin to the great firewall.

And you also have to consider that when you start using counter-measures then you're already retreating and relying on foreign, more-free societies to support you. What if they succumb to the same thing too which obviously is not so far-fetched since it already happened to your society?

[mariusz79]

Hitler was born 04/20. I believe 88 refers to H being 8th letter of the alphabet. (HH = 88)

[JohnStrange]

You're right. It stands for Heil Hitler. Nazis apparently tattoo this kind of shit on their heads.

[schoen]

Google reportedly chose it because of its extremely positive associations in Chinese culture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Eig...

[technion]

Every apartment in my building is exactly the same as the one on the floor above and below it.

Apartment 88 sold for nearly 50% more than 78 or 68, because it was seen as lucky by the Chinese buyers.

I'm in Sydney btw.

[e12e]

Which also generally applies for the sun cross, the mirrored swastika, go figure ;)

[s_kilk]

88 and 18 are the ones to watch out for with these types. They sure do love dem small numbers.