[mbf1]

This has been done many times before. The question is: Who wants it? Is it the government that wants it or the users? If the users want it, then it will take off. Otherwise, nobody will use it.

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." -Mark Twain

[throwaway11460]

That's why the next step will be mandating its use and blocking of DNS servers that don't replicate this one.

[eastbound]

Yes. Mandate Google to follow EU’s restrictions when they respond to 8.8.8.8 on a EU address, or pay a huge penalty.

After all, it’s EU’s freedom which is at stake.

[orwin]

It won't work, the courts will not enforce it.

Worse even, it is typically a case where EU can loose some legal power to the European court of human right. Logically, the ECHR should have primacy over the EUCJ, but technically and legally, it does not yet. Any case as broad as this, if the EUCJ is forced by the parliement to enforce it against human rights, would trigger a shit storm, and the EUCJ would either have to bow to the ECHR, or a new constitution would have to be drafted and voted on, and _that_ would be an even worse shitstorm.

[candiodari]

How do we get from DNS to Human rights? Why would they get involved?

[orwin]

Because to force people to use a specific Dns, you will have to invade their privacy, and privacy is a human right.

[candiodari]

You could just block DNS outbound from the continent entirely. How does that violate privacy?