Reply #34: I don't think the danger is "taking down DNS servers."

[hunter]

It's more a matter of redirecting them. Many people already see the effect of this sort of redirections in their workplace whenever their employers "block" certain websites.

Such actions would not stop a person who knew what they were doing from visiting whatever site they wanted to, but it would generally stop everyone else.

People in countries where the internet is tightly controlled do get around these sorts of blocks, but they can also be arrested for that. There are plenty of people in Saudi Arabia looking at pictures of naked women, and plenty of people in China reading political writing the Chinese government censors. But it is a dangerous thing to do.

There are people in the United States who would like to have you arrested for posting or looking at images of, say, gay porn, and these people might demand that you use of government controlled DNS servers which can be censored. Maybe they could claim such censorship is necessary to "fight terrorism."

One must always keep in mind that political and personal freedoms cannot be guaranteed by any sort of technology.