TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification

Don't believe what you read in the medias, you already know that. In an article about DNS censorship, TorrentFreak claims that “However, unlike Cloudflare, there is no notification whatsoever [when Google public resolver censors a domain].“This is clearly false. Let's use dig to interrogate this public resolver (here with the current version of IP, IPv6, but it works also with the old version IPv4): % dig @2001:4860:4860::8888 streameast.app ; <<>> DiG 9.18.33-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> @2001:4860:4860::8888 streameast.app ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 27513 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ; EDE: 16 (Censored): (The requested domain is subject to a judicial injunction or other governmental blocking order for FR (ISO country code). To learn more about this specific removal, please visit https://lumendatabase.org/notic ... Read full article.