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The Post-SOPA/PIPA Internet

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And, the beatings will continue until morality improves.

I’m probably not the only one who feeling a little embarrassed if not appalled at not having paid much attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills they were and maybe still are trying to ram through Congress. For shame, Christopher Dodd.

And while I’m not an expert, I do work in IT, and when readingthis I realized: what a sham. Using DNS as an enforcement mechanism is…TERRIBLE from a technical standpoint alone, and terrible worthy of all caps.

What the hell are they thinking?

Sometimes I forget how much of a “mystery” the internet is to these people. Hats off to all the folks who raised the alarm over the past few days, since it looks like they’re at least for now going to stall this in Congress. Still…amazing, and not in a good way: seems like the ONLY thing this Congress was going to do was fuck up the internet beyond all recognition…

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