The EU wants to build a DNS system that filters URLs... Are they drunk? :blobcatgoogly:

@Jain
No, they're authoritarians. EU is basically Germany's attempt at a 4th Reich.

@alyx you dont get it.. its not about politics now... its about you cant filter URLs with a DNS resolver

@Jain
Isn't Pi-hole a DNS server you use to block out ads? Why wouldn't it work for other stuff?

@Jain
But... to access any particular URL, don't you first need to resolve the domain? What good does it do if I type/click www.4chan.org/b/ if I can't figure out where www.4chan.org is in the first place?

@alyx yeah but according to the news they specifically want to block URLs... So either they have to block the whole Domain, the news site tells bs or they have no idea what DNS is

@Jain
You somehow think EU politicians know the difference any better? Trust me, replace whatever reference to URL to domain. That's what they mean by it.

@alyx Well, maybe you are right... However, this is an official competition and one should think that the announcement should be correct...
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@Jain
You can't really ask more than this. Politicians are normies. Even their tech advisors aren't gonna be actually competent in any particular tech field. I'd wager you know more about how the internet works then all their tech advisors put together.
Yeah, the language they use isn't correct. But from their point of view, even if they knew any better, this is what 99% of the people they deal with understand by URL, so that makes it the correct wording to use for their law.

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