The Collateral Damage of Mandated DNS Blocking

Carl Gahnberg here at Internet Society has an excellent new post highlighting our new resources for legal professionals on mandated DNS blocking. If you need to explain the technical realities of the Domain Name System to courts or policymakers, start with his overview here.

Repurposing the Internet's naming system for public policy is blunt, costly, and counterproductive. It breaks legitimate services, undermines authenticated DNS, and does not actually remove targeted content from the Internet.

For an in-depth dive into these issues, our new release, Mandated DNS Blocking: A Guide for Legal Professionals, details the collateral damage of these measures. It outlines exactly how blocking fragments the Internet and forces significant costs on operators.

Need a concise version for court? Litigants globally use our shorter brief, Mandated DNS Blocking: Critical Considerations, as evidence to clearly explain these technical limits to judges.