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It's impractical to fight terrorism in taking down domains. Analogy: It's like bombing a town because one house is harbouring terrorists. Domain analogy: It's
by Joakal 15y ago
It's impractical to fight terrorism in taking down domains.
Analogy: It's like bombing a town because one house is harbouring terrorists.
Domain analogy: It's like taking down youtube.com because one channel is harbouring terrorist videos.
- Cieplak 15y agoAbsolutely; I would go even farther and call it absurd. I want to see open-internet bills in Congress. I want to know how to implement such a bill so that it can coexist with something like the Patriot Act.
- lotu 15y agoHow about, taking down domains to prevent terrorism would be like removing street signs to prevent car bombings.
- sirclueless 15y agoDoubly useless since the terrorists can work around a lack of signs with GPS anyways.
- fmw 15y agoThis is something the British actually did during World War II in order to confuse possible invading forces and spies[0]. [0]: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019014 http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019014
- cellis 15y ago"It's like bombing a town because one house is harbouring terrorists" Govt: Even MORE reason for us to like it! Thanks alot!