At 02:41 PM 11/5/00 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It may well be that political activists discover this whole ICANN > > thing and realize they have a golden opportunity to have California > > laws applied to black/delist sites they dislike, organizations they > > think are racist, etc. > > > The Southern Law Poverty Center, the Simon Wiesenthal Hate Center, > > and other ZOG-controlled commie organizations will likely be going > > into overtime. > >DNS and the root servers are a single point of failure in the global >Internet, and one that is easily pressured to delete pointers to speech >that is deemed politically incorrect. It can also be an excellent single point of DoS attack for hacktivists. A few days of DNS unavailability and poof go most of the ISP caches. >It wouldn't surprise me in the least, if in the near future, sites deemed >to be monkeywrenching the system wind up having to be addressed by numeric >IPs, and even having their packets derouted. This is a compelling reason for promoting the widespread use of censorship-resistant peer-to-peer systems such as Mojo Nation. Although MN URLs now supports only location-based identification akin to IP addressing, name-based addressing is under development. --steve
