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Quad9 blog post announcing it will withdraw its free DNS resolver service from France after a French court ruling in favor of beIN ordering DNS blocking.

What HN thinks

France asked for a smaller internet, and Quad9 obliged by removing itself from it.

Support Quad9's principled exit
Most commenters back the CTO's view that DNS resolvers are the wrong place for content blocking and that complying invites an endless slippery slope of demands.
Jurisdiction over the internet is absurd
Long debate over whether merely being reachable from a country subjects a service to its laws, with the Lugano Convention cited as how French rulings could reach a Swiss non-profit.
Quad9 already filters, so why not this
A minority argues that offering malware filtering undermines the claim that piracy filtering is impossible; the CTO replies that threat filtering is user-chosen and optional.

Consensus: Most agree that targeting DNS resolvers over sports and music piracy is ineffective and misdirected, and that fining Quad9 after the plaintiff bypassed its block with a VPN was unreasonable.

Recommended in the comments

Tor (tool): Suggested as a decentralized technology robust against national blocking regimes.
dig (tool): Recommended for checking resolver answers yourself instead of relying on rumours.
hayahora.futbol ↗ (service): Recommended to explain Cloudflare outages in Spain when football is on.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 3 days ago.

Points: 1320
Comments: 456
Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-10-22 by farrokhi
Category: Politics policy

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