> I would think that being able to see what people are looking up would be quite valuable to an ISP
Definitely. So if this truly was their strategy, why are they blocking 1.1.1.1 instead of pointing it at their own DNS? It would be less immediately obvious what’s happening versus outright blockage. I really think people are prematurely attributing this to nefariousness.
The ship may have sailed on blocking 8.8.8.8 at this point; some things _hard-code_ it.