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This is certainly a way to go about taking websites off of the most commonly used web. And cutting off ad funding is like strangling them. But this power can ve
by madmaze 15y ago
This is certainly a way to go about taking websites off of the most commonly used web. And cutting off ad funding is like strangling them.
But this power can very well be misused and used to quiet organizations. I dont believe the government should have the power to dictate who is allowed to do business with who. Also filtering DNS is only a precursor of what is to come with internet censorship.
- wccrawford 15y agoCould you imagine if corporations were required to blacklist all companies that had done anything illegal? Everything would crumble. This is such a ridiculous idea.
- madmaze 15y agoEspecially because the government dictates what is considered illegal. Should I welcome us to china?
- corin_ 15y agoWhat? Now, I don't support internet censorship, but unless you support anarchy, who do you expect to decide on laws? That's a fairly large part of what governments are meant to do.
- wccrawford 15y agoI think his point was that since the government creates laws, and companies could deal with other companies that broke those laws, the government could destroy any corporation it wanted, at any time. Not that it can't do so now, but it's a lot harder to blind the public about it, and it would take quite a bit longer. With this law, it would be an overnight thing.
- corin_ 15y agoThis law is terrible, yes, but the issue is with this law, not with the fact that the government "dictates what is considered illegal".
- madmaze 15y agoI understand the government always dictates what is considered legal/illegal, maybe I used the wrong wording. But My issue is that if they have the power to regulate the internet and what the internet displays, they have the ability to censor what every they like. If kept unmonitored this could threaten freedom of speech and press.
- corin_ 15y agoIn that case apologies for misunderstanding, I read your comment as one of those generic pointless fuck the man comments that are normally written by 14 year olds. "Government making laws? WE'RE IN CHINA!" Understood now :)
- lukeschlather 15y agoThe issue is that the executive branch is being granted broad judicial powers, much like with the Patriot act.
- CWuestefeld 15y agoGood question, I never thought about it this way. Why does IP get such special protections? Why not blacklist companies that cheat on their taxes, or violate EPA regs?
- Natsu 15y ago> Why does IP get such special protections? A lot of expensive lobbyists.
- dedward 15y agoAs soon as the door is opened to allow this for IP, everthing else will follow like a tidal wave.
- anigbrowl 15y agoBecause copying and duplication of IP are trivially easy over the digital infrastructure. The shutdown measures are primarily injunctive rather than penal. Firms in other industries often have sanctions imposed on them as well, but they're not as obvious to those outside that industry.
- beedogs 15y agoCan? Will be misused.
- Natsu 15y agoHas been misused. They already falsely accused a great many sites of being associated with pedophilia in one of their domain seizures. And now they want to expand that program.