SOPA vote to get it out of committee delayed

[thewayne]

This is good. They've heard from ??AA "experts" who want to legislate technical changes to the internet, yet they didn't allow any witnesses who were technical experts on how the internet is engineered and how these changes would damage the internet.

The thing that I really hate here is that they're working from the perspective of "America owns the internet!" when the reason that the internet works is because it's an open standard that everyone follows. Change it in America and you'll break it at least here and encourage more software workarounds, which are already happening. There are at least two add-ons for Firefox called FireICE and MAFIAAFireRedirector that route around sites blocked by DHS.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/sopa-vote-delayed/

Comments

[silveradept]

And one could, theoretically, just redirect one's DNS lookups to somewhere else that doesn't follow SOPA and be just fine, right?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Yep. The DNS server is part of your IP address configuration, the same information where your DHCP server is found. You have to use your ISP's DHCP information as that is internal network TCP/IP address configuration, but the DNS server can certainly be proxied for a server outside your ISP's network, especially since you normally don't use domain names for servers inside your ISP's network.

For example, when I'm on my employer's network, I can type INTRANET as a domain name in a browser and get our internal web server which mainly has forms and training materials of no interest to people not on our network. Same principal.