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.
Could you imagine if corporations were required to blacklist all companies that had done anything illegal? Everything would crumble. This is such a ridiculous idea.
Good 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?
Because 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.
What? 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.
I 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.
I 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.
In 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 :)
Has 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.
