alt Hacker NewsNoting this article skips over any discussion about why, or potentially (in the eyes of the law at least) legitimate reason an ISP might do this.
Many ISPs in many countries are forced to do this for certain enforcement action that gets put upon them by their respective states for things such as age gating, censorship, monitoring, it varies state by state.
And to be clear this is in no way an endorsement of the practice, and I am confident no ISP WANTS to do this.
I am speaking here as the owner of a UK ISP (who does not currently do this).
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I'm pretty confident ISPs do want hijack DNS since they've been doing it for decades in order to push ads to their customers.
this is valid, in NL most DNS is also heavy monitored and intercepted to do blocks if mandated etc. if you want to get around it u can tunnel ur tlsdns thingy to another place and they essentially cannot intercept it, they can still block the IPs it resolves to so its hit and miss depending on how the other end is implemented.
its usually not nefarious, that is just the simpelest (and usually, not always) wrong explanation.
people who think this is not normal probarbly didnt experience what kind of shit u could find on the pre google pre monitored internet. for sure shit u do not want your kids to find. if u dont understand, then likely u dont have kids and very weird fetishes...
She was looking up a torrent site which specialises in porn.
I'm guessing that's the reason.
Why do you assume the others have same ethical compass as you? I hope everyone has the same compass but we have seen again and again trust being broken.
If you're a UK ISP owner, you're almost certainly a RIPE NCC member, given the UK is within its regional scope. Therefore, you've probably spoken to other RIPE NCC members via mailing lists or meetings at least once. Since I also represent a provider that is a RIPE NCC member, I can object that not everybody shares the same ideology you noted. There are some providers that actually speak in favor of such over-regulation and censorship. Everybody can read and/or participate in the RIPE Discussion List, though, and you will be amazed by some responses from ISPs that speak in favor of such measures.
But the good news is that at least the majority (for now) is against it.