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You just gotta love Ron Wyden! A bill was introduced in to the Senate that would give our government the ability to censor websites by banning them through their DNS entry on the global servers. Mainly the bill named “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA, S.3804) was designed to eliminate offshore pirate websites by blocking their domain name registration on the root DNS servers.

Ron Wyden put the kybosh on the bill in the senate by placing a hold on it after recognizing this bill as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Here is the website I read the article: Silicon Florest – Al Gore may have invented the Information Superhighway, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden just saved the Internet