Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

Thu Aug 18 09:57:14 UTC 2005

> It was bad enough back in the '90s when Internic refused to accept
> registration of certain four letter words.  DNS is not a proper venue
> for censoring ideas.

Again, I am not discussing "censoring ideas". I want to know if its
indeed "tehnically" possible and feasible to block a website URL from
being accessed.

> 
> 
> > No, that wasnt my point. I just wanted to make sure that my
> > understanding of banning a hostname was indeed correct. We can this
> > way atleast block all websites with *alqaida* domain names.
> >
> > I wanted to know if the arguments of "freedom of speech" etc. apply to
> > the Internet also, wherein somebody could argue that no central
> > authority can stop somebody from expressing their thoughts, etc.
> 
> Within the USA, arguments of "freedom of speech" DO apply.
> 
> Somebody can and should argue that no central authority
> is entitled to stop somebody from expressing their thoughts.
> 
> IMHO, it is not the purpose of network operators to make value
> judgments regarding the packets that we transport.
> 
> Why not just bring back the "evil bit" as a serious proposal?
> 
> 
> Kevin Kadow
> 

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