ISP Website Blocking
Comments discuss governments and courts ordering ISPs to block access to sites like torrent and porn platforms, often via DNS or IP level, with talks on enforcement, bypass methods like alternative DNS, and examples from UK, India, and others.
Activity Over Time
Top Contributors
Keywords
Sample Comments
They block your site at the ISP level. They’ve been doing that for years.They’d fine you as well but that’s probably less enforceable.
Probably the ISPs would be required to block a given list of domains, and they will do it at DNS requests. Porn sites and torrent sharing sites used to be blocked this way. Some ISPs wont even do it properly. A decade or more ago, when these were banned, I could circumvent it by simply moving to using encrypted dns protocol by running dnscrypt. It is rarely implemented with a zeal, unlike chinese GFW reportedly does.
There are plenty of instances who just block content that's illegal in their country. So you just could choose one of these.
Countries just tell ISPs they need to block ips. It's easy to bypass, see the pirate bay blocks.
The internet sees censorshop as damage, and routes around it.
You could. And then you could get blocked by the ISPs after the courts order it.
There is more. Individual ISPs can ban or even slow down websites as per their own wishes. Airtel in india (which is about to raise an investment by Amazon) blocked a lot of websites like Streamable when it wasnt even legally banned. Just showed the error as address could not be found. I circumvented by changing my DNS to cloudflare and it started working. Jio totally blocked telegram with no directions from court or govt.
The UK has blocked porn sites on ISP level for 15 years now, no court order needed AFAIK.
It's not mentioned in this article but from what I understand (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), "blocking" is happening at the ISP DNS level, and anyone living in these affected areas can simply use a different DNS service to continue using these websites unimpeded.
Every ISP could also block these sites... Yet few do....