DNS as legal choke‑point

Courts are increasingly ordering Internet infrastructure actors (DNS resolvers and search providers) to implement content blocks, treating them as legally accountable chokepoints rather than neutral pipes. That shifts enforcement from site takedowns and CDN actions to global name‑resolution layers, imposing technical burdens on resolver operators and creating jurisdictionally sliced access for users. — If judicial practice spreads, DNS-level orders will become a favored, fast enforcement tool that fragments the global internet, concentrates compliance costs on a few operators, and raises cross‑border free‑speech and technical‑sovereignty disputes.