DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA

New submitter crvtec sends this excerpt from CNet: "Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System blocking provision. 'After consultation with industry groups across the country,' Smith said in a statement released by his office, 'I feel we should remove (DNS) blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision.'"

Comments

Sony

[Anonymous Coward]

The bill should contain a provision for a national holiday any time anyone performs a public cracking of Sony's network.

Re:Hm.

[hedwards]

Honestly, I think that if Lamar would get a few deep packet inspections he'd probably be less of a useless asshole.

Re:Classical way of pushing law through....

[KhabaLox]

A law like this can only be pushed through by making it Draconian at first,

I've been playing too much D&D and Skryim the last couple of days, because I completely misinterpreted your post on the first read through.

NDAA is okay because Obama approved

[walterbyrd]

Everybody knows that democrats can do no wrong when it comes to civil rights. Only republicans are bad.

Re:Update The background image is now gone.

[TaoPhoenix]

Wait, who cares that it's gone! He used the offending image, right?

Pull his site!

Oh wait - so if a Govt site "just pulls the image" it's okay, but when Joe Small does it we pull his entire site?

How did you let him past that double standard?!