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[ NNSquad ] More on the SOPA Goodlatte amendment
More on the SOPA Goodlatte amendment http://j.mp/rHB8jF (This message on Google+) - - - I should add (in the interests of giving extreme benefit of the doubt) that what the framers of that amendment might have been *trying* to say (in their ham-fisted way) is that a SOPA order would only apply to the targeted virtual site of a Web hosting provider, not any other virtual sites residing on the same main hosting site. But this in itself has nonsensical aspects, since DNS-based blocking would by definition apply to individual virtual hosts, assuming the "correct" domain names were specified in the SOPA orders. Note that SOPA appears to contemplate most blocking taking place as close to the DNS root as possible, which means blocking entire domains and all their subdomains in most cases. If a targeted entity were running its own DNS servers, you'd have to essentially block at the root to have the "desired censorship effect." This all further underscores the absolute idiocy of trying to morph a highly technical network address resolution system into a blunt politically-motivated censorship weapon. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad