Internet crackdown coming?
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Legislation that would prevent Americans from visiting websites the government claims are violating copyright rules had a tumultuous first hearing Wednesday, with its main sponsor unexpectedly expressing reservations over the bill’s scope.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one the chief sponsors of the bill, expressed uncertainty over allowing the Justice Department to obtain court orders demanding that American ISPs prevent users from visiting blacklisted websites. ISPs receiving such orders would have to alter records in the net’s system for looking up website names, known as DNS.
The House bill also allows the Justice Department to order search sites like Google to remove an allegedly “rogue” site from its search results.
“I’m not a technical expert on this,” the chairman of the committee said, adding moments later: “I’m trying to ferret this out.”