Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law

Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google, with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers

I don't know why Italy is wasting time on this.

Italy is not going to be able to force all public DNS servers out there to block things that they want blocked. Anyone using Google's DNS servers is already going out of their way to use an alternate DNS and can probably plonk in another IP address if they want. It's not as if Google has the only publicly-accessible DNS server out there.

If Italy really and truly doesn't want a DNS server that is doing this to be accessible in Italy, go after Italian network service providers, and instead of playing a never-ending game of whack-a-mole until they run into someone who just tells Italy to buzz off, just block it. Now, some portion of Italians are probably going to still get to DNS servers that ignore Italy's views on things via VPNs unless Italy wants to ban those too, but it'd at least be more-effective than trying to go after every DNS server provider out there, which is definitely is going to leave DNS servers that don't block sites accessible online.

Frankly, I don't even think that DNS-based censorship is very effective in the first place anyway, but if you're going to do it, might as well at least do it as effectively as possible.