SOPA vote to get it out of committee delayed
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/
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/