They did similar things to block the pirate bay, I guess 💀
In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally ‘Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet’, a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.
This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.
Germany’s been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a “penis” on social media.) It’s fucked.
Recently they switched to a more public court-order based approach.
But my thought on this is as well: Once their domain name servers are configured according to law, can they force us to not use other domain name services?
They probably can just block IPs of foreign DNS but I suspect there’s ways of mirroring around that.