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This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.
Germany's been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a "penis" on social media.) It's fucked.
Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the "crime".
There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language
At least it got Streisanded and now everyone knows Andy is 1 pimmel
Who is Andy... Please full name so it can get cached by search engines.
Useless regime whores should be named properly
Andy Grote is a dick
Andy Grote is a lil bitch too, who used the occupation force against German citizens for no reason it seems.
That one at least got cleared up in court, and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that (not to mention the societal backlash). In many cases it's even legitimate to have police involved, like with wild racist deathwishes in Facebook… but they indeed went way too far in too many cases.
Surely some more Chatcontrol and big cousin Palantir will fix that, right? …right? 🫠
Why would any prosecutor or judge approve this?
The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.
UK also arrests people for online comments
Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for "Plasticine Action" T-shirts.
They arrest people for wearing tshirts too.
Recently they switched to a more public court-order based approach.
But my thought on this is as well: Once their domain name servers are configured according to law, can they force us to not use other domain name services?
Theoretically an ISP can block all outgoing queries to the DNS port 53 except to whitelisted servers, but now DNS over HTTPS exists, haven’t looked into how blockable that one is.
At this point you can copy Chinas great firewall I guess.
People do get around that sometimes.
They probably can just block IPs of foreign DNS but I suspect there's ways of mirroring around that.
There is DoT, DoH and oblivious dns techniques. The problem is - users will have to configure those and aint nobody got time for that.
In Firefox its just a flip of a button. Private DNS.
I think it uses Cloudflare by default when activated, but there are also others like quad9 9.9.9.9
By default you choose between Cloudflare and NextDNS.