censorship

The DNS resolver Quad9 writes in its post [A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy](https://quad9.net/news/blog/when-enforcing-copyright-starts-breaking-the-internets-plumbing/ „Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy“), that infrastructure providers are increasingly under financial strain. The reason, it says, is short-sighted court rulings that have mostly been decided in favor of copyright holders’ interests. Those hit hardest are smaller, non-profit providers, while large tech companies can easily absorb such costs into their business models. If this trend continues, we risk an Internet that is almost entirely run and controlled by big IT companies. It’s an example of how the economic interests of a few are protected at the expense of the public. ...

»Zuckerberg’s censorship claims were ‘misleading’ — EU tech chief« for politico.eu “Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,” Zuckerberg said. The longer I think about it, the more I hope the EU stands up to the pressure from the tech giants and possibly from the future US president. It should be the EU’s responsibility to decide how business is conducted here. If that makes the European market less attractive to companies like Meta or Apple, they are of course free to withdraw. ...