Beating Censorship By Routing Around DNS

jfruhlinger writes "Last month, the US gov't shut down a number of sites it claimed were infringing copyright. They did it by ordering VeriSign to change the sites' authoritative domain name servers. This revealed that DNS is subject to government interference — and now a number of projects have emerged to bypass DNS entirely."

Comments

Re:how is it censorship?

[sehlat]

As has been noted elsewhere, a number of the sites seized were, in fact, quite legitimate ones.

Bypassing due process is quick and cheap in the (very) short term, but an expensive disaster over the long haul.

Re:Get back in your Free Speech Zone

[spun]

See the case Monsanto v. Oakhurst Dairy of Maine. Monsanto sued, forcing Oakhurst dairy to modify their labels.