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Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.

What HN thinks

Liberté, égalité, résolveur DNS alternatif.

Blocking is censorship and dystopian
Many see DNS blocks as authoritarian overreach echoing regimes during the Arab Spring, and warn that once governments start blocking they won't stop.
Rioters coordinate on social media
Others argue violent rioters use platforms to organise and hide among peaceful protesters, so cutting communications is a reasonable emergency measure.
Trivially bypassed anyway
Commenters note that changing DNS or using a VPN defeats such blocks, though some warn this leads to DPI and VPN bans.

Consensus: There is no consensus on whether the block is justified, but most agree a DNS block is technically easy to circumvent.

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1.1.1.1 (service): Suggested as an easy way to change DNS on an iPhone to bypass DNS blocks.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 98
Comments: 87
Best rank: #4
Posted: 2026-10-25 by noplay
Category: Politics policy

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