@Jain @alyx Why not? You just have to control all the nodes.

@Zerglingman @alyx
Whoever is in control of the exit nodes, is also in control of the traffic

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

@alyx well yes, domains, but not URLs

@alyx you dont submit urls to a DNS server... Just to the webserver...

@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
More like the news site has no idea what URLs are.
What such normies mean by URL is usually the domain. If you ask them for examples, they'll list www.facebook.com, www.google.com, www.yahoo.com etc.

@alyx And no, they wrote that they wana Filter URLs:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/cef-dig-2021-cloud-dns-works

@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.

@Jain
They're not interested in using this to block one Twitter account but not another. They're interested in blocking the entire Gab, or Parlour or whatever they deem "fake news" website at the time.

@alyx Well, maybe you are right... However, this is an official competition and one should think that the announcement should be correct...

@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.

@Jain @alyx which news exactly?
URL stands for domain in the official announcement at least
https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/calls-proposals/equipping-backbone-networks-high-performance-and-secure-dns-resolution-infrastructures-works_en

@pleb https://blob.cat/notice/AFdII9ZbNszqVGJhQ0

@Jain seems like an over reliance on the absolute meaning of an URL, you can filter a subset of it just fine, and that's the domain, to which the DNS can choose to give a false/null result to.
A bit silly that they didn't use the word domain.
And even sillier to mistake the decades of old wording they might have to keep using because some document telling them so, for stupidity.