It would be easy enough to get around a DNS ban. Especially since they can't stop people from using whatever name server they choose or mapping IPs locally themselves.
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
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#22If this does pass, couldn't we just set up alternate DNS servers which include the blacklisted domains?
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#23The bill in question is COICA – "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" EFF has this to say: The main mechanism of the bill is to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS), which translates names like "www.eff.org" or "www.nytimes.com" into the IP addresses that computers use to communicate. The bill creates a blacklist of censored domains; the Attorney General can ask a court to place any…
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#24California senator Dianne Feinstein, who appears on this list, also sponsored Consume But Don't Try Programming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_... ) back in the day. As long as she's on the ballot, I'll be voting for her Republican opponent, however loathsome.
What makes you think her generic unnamed Republican opponent wouldn't vote the same way?
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#25Extra Credit: Why aren't the senators' party affiliations listed?
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#27California senator Dianne Feinstein, who appears on this list, also sponsored Consume But Don't Try Programming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_... ) back in the day. As long as she's on the ballot, I'll be voting for her Republican opponent, however loathsome.
What makes you think her generic unnamed Republican opponent wouldn't vote the same way?
That's actually besides the point. Once the seat trades parties a few times, the occupant will figure out that if they want to be reelected they have to listen to their constituents. Or so the theory goes.
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#28The bill in question is COICA – "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" EFF has this to say: The main mechanism of the bill is to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS), which translates names like "www.eff.org" or "www.nytimes.com" into the IP addresses that computers use to communicate. The bill creates a blacklist of censored domains; the Attorney General can ask a court to place any…
I'm shocked and ashamed that California's own Feinstein appears on this list.
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#29Extra Credit: Why aren't the senators' party affiliations listed?
Because it doesn't matter. Quite often, those parties are two sides of the same coin.
If they didn't list party affiliation on ballots, people would instead vote based on what? The names they like most? That's about how informed some voters are, unfortunately. It takes effort to get informed, and the entities that should inform them, often fail to do so.
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#30The bill in question is COICA – "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" EFF has this to say: The main mechanism of the bill is to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS), which translates names like "www.eff.org" or "www.nytimes.com" into the IP addresses that computers use to communicate. The bill creates a blacklist of censored domains; the Attorney General can ask a court to place any…
I'm shocked and ashamed that California's own Feinstein appears on this list.
Especially since that state is particularly known for its hostility towards the content industry.