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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by glombus on Friday December 30, 2011 @02:00PM (#3408669)
I agree. I am anti-SOPA, but this is not censorship so much as an overzealous attempt to stop spam, executed poorly. Did they do a wildcard block/hold/whatever on a top level domain of yours *.mydomain.com so all your sub domains got blocked? I'm guessing some goober at bluehost just went one step farther than he should have in just removing the one DNS entry, and they definitely should have contacted you. Sounds like poor customer service.
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by fr0sty on Friday December 30, 2011 @02:59PM (#3408858)
And if SOPA passes you will see suspiciously simil overzealuos attempts to stop piracy. Same song, different verse but this time you get the federal government involved which is a whole new level of fun.
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by FreebytesSector on Friday December 30, 2011 @04:07PM (#3409099)
This is true, and it makes me thing of all of the private sector solutions that are already available. The market creates the solutions and does not need government interference slowing it down or making dispute resolutions more complicated.
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by glombus on Friday December 30, 2011 @04:00PM (#3409079)
I agree http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409045
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by bitmonk on Friday December 30, 2011 @03:07PM (#3408884)
No hosting provider should ever modify customer DNS without the customer requesting.

Boycott Bluehost!

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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by chernevik on Saturday December 31, 2011 @12:26AM (#3410238)
In the U.S., censorship will very likely travel under the guise of some "overzealous attempt" to stop this, that or the other.

SOPA's censorship problem is not the explicit endorsement of censorship but the precedent of mechanisms and principles that will make censorship far easier to implement and "justify".

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