Hector Martin

Seems this is carrier infrastructure; it's unclear if this is directly under government control or (more likely) they were told to do this.

That’s what I meant

No real difference between this and e.g. court-ordered child porn or piracy site takedowns, though. We know govts order ISPs to block sites.

I must be having a brain fart, when?

I mean, when I lived in Ireland thepiratebay was blocked by my ISP (at least via their primary domain/IP).

They were sued to do that, and only do blocking at the DNS level. (if you use their DNS servers) For me, it's a reminder to fix DNS settings on a new connection.

Nope, wasn't DNS. I wasn't using their DNS server. It was IP based.

oh. What ISP were you on? My last two ISPs only did it in DNS. Virgin media doesn't even properly block it anymore, just redirects you to their homepage with a cert error.