When the invasion started, CZ.NIC (the .cz domain owner) also wiped DNS records of 8 supposedly "disinformation" websites based on - in their words - a consultation with the Ministry of Interior. No law was passed, there was no court order, they just got a phone call from some paper pusher and cut off 8 small news sites.
I'm so glad we live in a liberal democracy where we have rights and not in Russia with all its censorship and propaganda!
This happens in the US too. The DOJ seizes domain names for piracy. I think that happened to the old Mega when they arrested kimdotcom.
Even Microsoft once temporarily stole No-IPs domain names, dont ask me how that happened, to stop botnets. They said they did it on behalf of the government.
Canada's Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino, openly admitted in committee on Friday regarding the Emergencies Act, the trucker convoy and martial law, that he personally reached out to several journalists at the start of the protest to "warn them" about their coverage.
When the invasion started, CZ.NIC (the .cz domain owner) also wiped DNS records of 8 supposedly "disinformation" websites based on - in their words - a consultation with the Ministry of Interior. No law was passed, there was no court order, they just got a phone call from some paper pusher and cut off 8 small news sites.
I'm so glad we live in a liberal democracy where we have rights and not in Russia with all its censorship and propaganda!
This happens in the US too. The DOJ seizes domain names for piracy. I think that happened to the old Mega when they arrested kimdotcom.
Even Microsoft once temporarily stole No-IPs domain names, dont ask me how that happened, to stop botnets. They said they did it on behalf of the government.
Canada's Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino, openly admitted in committee on Friday regarding the Emergencies Act, the trucker convoy and martial law, that he personally reached out to several journalists at the start of the protest to "warn them" about their coverage.
the same thing happened in Poland, plus censoring some domains at the DNS server level