Yes, by leaving french jurisdiction.
> or serve your citizens
This is not necessary. At all.
This is some fucked up level of incompetency.
That’s why Justice can be abused by whoever got the most money, if it was competent they wouldn’t waste much time on these ridiculous claims.
They say they don't have data about individual IP addresses, and their report is follows their privacy policy. Yes, right, but think about it as a matter of principle. Normally, a privacy focused service shouldn't collect any data, but for technical or legal reasons, sometimes, they have to. They may need to know how many queries they have and from which zones to properly dimension their infrastructure for instance, so it is normal for them to have these logs, but publishing them in a blog post just to make a point feels like they are ready to use collected data beyond their intended purpose if it serves their interests.
Legally, it is fine, and is is unlikely to hurt anyone, but on principle, that's a red flag.
I don't find it disturbing at all, and it's perfectly in line with what you would expect a privacy focused service to do: name and shame those that are attacking privacy.
Many of these probably against it and expect privacy, that's why they are using quad9. They are the victims here.
If they had said "this service is used by this or that proponent of the legislation", your point could stand, even though I still disagree.
Also, it is about blocking, not spying, still bad, but orthogonal to privacy.
>We eventually won that case against Sony, but it took several years, six figures of cost to Quad9, and massive wasted time – all of which set us back in our ability to deliver services and is a resource debt we are still paying for today
Aren't literally every country doing the same?
And nobody would pick a piracy list, why'd you do it as a user.