# Blocking Behavior

Google Public DNS strongly believes in our users' freedom to use the DNS
resolver of their choice to resolve any name in the Domain Name System.
However, laws---in particular copyright laws---in the jurisdictions listed below
allow for judicial injunctions or other governmental orders that require DNS
intermediaries to block specified domains in those jurisdictions.

For these jurisdictions, Google Public DNS will comply with enforceable court
and governmental orders to block DNS resolution of all names under specified
domains. In the event of a block, we will communicate this explicitly in the
query response. The response returned will have DNS RCODE
[*REFUSED*](https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-parameters.xhtml#dns-parameters-6),
optionally with an extended DNS error
[*16 (Censored)*](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8914.html#name-extended-dns-error-code-16-).

Please see the
[Google Transparency Report on government requests to remove content](https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/government-requests)
for further information and annotations describing selected cases.

## Jurisdictions where we perform blocking

- Belgium (BE)
- France (FR)
- India (IN)
- Italy (IT)
- Portugal (PT)