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DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-double-down,-protesters dept.

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.'"

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  1. By ”consultation with industry gro“ he by microbee · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Behind-door meetings with corporate sponsors who brought this bill to his table and deciding what to give up to pass the rest of it.