In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 87 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 59 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At least it got Streisanded and now everyone knows Andy is 1 pimmel

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who is Andy... Please full name so it can get cached by search engines.

Useless regime whores should be named properly

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Andy Grote is a dick

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Andy Grote is a lil bitch too, who used the occupation force against German citizens for no reason it seems.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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? 🫠

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that

The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Why would any prosecutor or judge approve this?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

UK also arrests people for online comments

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

They arrest people for wearing tshirts too.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for "Plasticine Action" T-shirts.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At this point you can copy Chinas great firewall I guess.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

People do get around that sometimes.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They probably can just block IPs of foreign DNS but I suspect there's ways of mirroring around that.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There is DoT, DoH and oblivious dns techniques. The problem is - users will have to configure those and aint nobody got time for that.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

By default you choose between Cloudflare and NextDNS.