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by eastbound 853 days ago
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.

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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.

How do we get from DNS to Human rights? Why would they get involved?
Because to force people to use a specific Dns, you will have to invade their privacy, and privacy is a human right.
You could just block DNS outbound from the continent entirely. How does that violate privacy?
Can you really? I use DoH, could it be stopped? I don't understand networks enough to be sure about anything dns-related tbh,if you tell me you could block DoH outbound, I believe.

But freedom is only a part of human rights, there is also 'equality' in front of the law, and if you admit one exception for non-defense related reasons, you'll get censored by the echr too.

If you had the force of law behind you? Absolutely.