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Yesterday SOPA was "shelved", today DNS filtering is "off the table". I'm not sure I follow.

• calloc 15y ago
  All of it is double speak. The bill can be revived at a moments notice, when we finally let up and go back to being complacent it will be pulled from the shelve and passed as quickly as possible.
• InclinedPlane 15y ago
  SOPA was shelved in its current form. And DNS filtering was one mechanism to enforce the provisions of SOPA. That doesn't mean that the industry and congress have given up the basic premise of SOPA: the idea that all content on the internet should be pre-screened thoroughly for any hint of IP infringement, that standards of evidence and due process should be thrown out the window and the mere act of accusation should be sufficient to warrant adjudication of a punishment on the site owners.