{"id":1168,"date":"2012-01-13T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/13\/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:19","slug":"dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/13\/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS provision pulled from SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said\u00a0he plans to remove the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

DNS provision pulled from SOPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1332,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/the-pirate-bay-dancing-add-on-killls-dns-and-ip\/","url_meta":{"origin":1168,"position":0},"title":"\u2018The Pirate Bay Dancing\u2019 Add-On Killls DNS and IP Blockades | TorrentFreak","author":"aslam","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Efforts to censor the Internet are increasing in the Western world. 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