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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Legislation would let U.S. order domain names to be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Mon Sep 20 18:16:21 2010
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:58:04 -0700
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Legislation would let U.S. order domain names to be shut down
anywhere in world
http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg04282.html
"If passed, the Justice Department could ask a federal court for
an injunction that would order a domain registrar or registry to stop
resolving an infringing site's domain name, so that visitors to
PirateBay.org, for example, would get a 404 error."
http://bit.ly/9AZDU5 (ars technica)
I can't think of a better way to cause the rest of the world to
accuse the U.S. of trying to play "Internet dictator" -- while
simultaneously helping to foster the development of convenient
addressing mechanisms not dependent on the existing domain
name ecosystem.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
Co-Founder, PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility): http://www.pfir.org
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