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Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

use your powers for good and poison dns to stop russian disinformation

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How about not poisoning anything? Not using powers is also an option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

standing by and letting russia continue to spread disinformation isn't a good thing.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 5 months ago

They're going to spread disinformation regardless, and they can block any DNS provider they want regardless. So I guess it could help non-Russians, but it won't do anything for Russians.