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Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ 46

GovTechGuy writes "Rep. Zoe Lofgren sat down with Roll Call to discuss her proposal to slow down the seizure of domain names accused of piracy by the federal government. Lofgren turned to Reddit for help formulating the bill, and also discussed whether her colleagues in Congress know enough about technology to make informed decisions on tech policy."
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Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ

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  • by 1s44c ( 552956 ) on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:35AM (#42325831)

    These agencies of the US government are abusing the DNS system, our DNS system. We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer. Nothing short of that will fix the DNS abuse we keep seeing.

    Namecoin was a good idea but it's not going to work as currently implemented. Maybe something similar could.

  • by Quila ( 201335 ) on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:49AM (#42325995)

    Johnson was obviously joking about stationing too many people on the island. Jackson-Lee honestly asked a NASA official if the Mars Pathfinder had photographed the flag planted by Neil Armstrong. Her office accused those who pointed out her stupidity of racism.

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