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Re:Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act by int_19h on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:02PM (#11866677)
We're not talking about some kind of Aquinas Protocol here, but rather who controls the DNS root zone. How much censorship potential is there, really? Especially when it's likely to end up being managed by committee, which basically means nothing gets done unless everyone agrees?
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Re:Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act by xg15 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:11PM (#11866926)
The DHS seems to have seized non-US domains in the past on disputed legal grounds.[1]

I'm not completely sure, but I'd think a transfer to a non-US entity would make this harder in the future.

[1] http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domai...

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Re:Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act by 2bitencryption on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:07PM (#11866708)
yeah, it looks like this is just a pointless piece of legislation so that in the next big election they can say "well WE created the Internet Freedom Whatchamacallit! Did Opponent support that? NO! They don't care about the cyber .gov DNS IP security what does all that mean."
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