17 January, 2012

A wordy post on why SOPA and PIPA are awful ideas.

blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP: This legislation naively ignores this complexity, and simply labels a site 'foreign' or 'domestic' based solely on the domain name.

The legislators sponsoring these bills have indicated that they are only targeted at truly foreign sites. However, the language is so loose and ignorant of what is truly a foreign site that there is a huge amount of room to argue what is actually "foreign".