The Save Our Political Assets act [telecom]

The Save Our Political Assets act, or "That's a nice Internet you got there - it'd be a shame if something happened to it"!

I was just looking down a page of Google search results, and mentally drawing lines through the ones that pointed to Wikipedia, since it is offline today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a.k.a. SOPA.

I was asking myself why the Congressmen who introduced the bill would propose something so ham-handed as blanking entire websites out if one of their users was accused of posting copyrighted content: SOPA has provisions to remove complete domains from the Internet by altering their DNS entries.

And then, it hit me: this has nothing to do with copyright.

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Posted 5 years ago by Bill Horne in General Telecommunications Forum

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