Quad9 is leaving France over pirate site blocking orders, which makes it the second DNS resolver to leave the country. Quad9 will stop serving French users on November 24, after a Paris court set a €1,000 daily penalty for not blocking pirate tennis streams. Faced with this order and roughly 20 other pending French cases, Quad9 says that it has no other viable option left.
So that a few 100 people can spam test on the public channel and forget about it.
If you want to know how to really function in a surveillance state look at the Russian underground networks: irc over (insert proxy method here)