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TIL India has almost 1 billion internet subscribers. And the tip five ISPs serve very nearly all of them (98%). So it's very interesting to look at how ISPs do DNS filtering:

  • A total of 43,083 unique apex domains were confirmed blocked via DNS filtering
    — a sixfold increase over the previous largest study (which documented 6,787
    blocked domains).
  • A major ISP’s misconfiguration of a blocking rule is causing significant overblocking
    where an entire global top-level domain (.yokohama) is inaccessible.
  • Only 9,363 censored domains (21.73% of the blocklist produced by this study)
    had ranks in the Tranco list (a reliable and transparent top-sites ranking list),
    demonstrating that test lists drawing from popularity rankings do not accurately
    represent censorship scale.
  • There is aggressive blocking of services and platforms across categories including
    business, hosting, research, and communication.
  • A state-owned, public-sector undertaking (PSU) ISP’s consumer blocklist is
    hypothesized to be derived from filtering policies intended for government offices.

Apparently, the movie industry has a very effective lobby: