Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

Thu Aug 18 09:55:19 UTC 2005

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> If we, is the US department of commerce, the answer is probably yes.
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> The only operational significance, is that there is no way easy way of
> estimating in advance the effect of removing valid DNS information from the
> system, unless you are the administrator of the system concerned (and even
> then mistakes happen - not when I do it of course<cough>).
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> i.e. It may be that a nameserver called "ns1.example.com" supports domains in
> a completely different TLD, like "example.co.uk", which belongs to an
> important organisation or service.

Okay, so i am not talking about blocking or removing a name server. I
am talking of removing that offending entry (like www.abc.com) from
the whois database or whereever the central database is mantained.

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> That said spammers routinely have domains, and nameservers, removed with very
> little if any damage to legitimate Internet users.
> 
> The real question is should we, words don't kill people, people kill people.

Definitely!

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