Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, 2011 @07:49AM from the like-a-series-of-irritating-tubes dept.

pigrabbitbear writes "Since its introduction, the Stop Online Piracy Act (and its Senate twin PROTECT-IP) has been staunchly condemned by countless engineers, technologists and lawyers intimately familiar with the inner functioning of the internet. Completely beside the fact that these bills, as they currently stand, would stifle free speech and potentially cripple legitimate businesses by giving corporations extrajudicial censorial powers, there's an even more insidious threat: the method of DNS filtering proposed to block supposed infringing sites opens up enormous security holes that threaten the stability of the internet itself. The problem: key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don't understand how the internet works, and worse yet, it's not clear whether they even want to."

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Re:Where is the problem???? by Grishnakh · 2011-12-16 08:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Without government regulation, Comcast would have been able to block all Netflix access. The only reason they stopped is because they were afraid the government would step in and cause problems, due to their monopoly position. If you really believe companies (particularly monopolies) care about their customers, you are a fool. Go back to your shrine to the Invisible Hand.