{"id":1986,"date":"2011-12-22T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:38:10","slug":"dont-break-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2011\/12\/22\/dont-break-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"don’t break the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Internet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Domain Name System (DNS) is a foundational block upon which the Internet has been built and upon which its continued functioning critically depends; it is among a handful of protocols upon which almost every other protocol, and countless Internet applications, rely to operate smoothly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more here: don’t break the internet – stanford law review<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder how many congress-people could explain how DNS works in less than a minute. This was mentioned in another blog post I linked to, but the willful anti-intellectualism displayed by our representatives is astounding.<\/p>\n

I’m also seriously bothered that Senator Franken is a co-sponsor of PIPA. Unbelievable. Did he come out a little too strong on the side of net-neutrality<\/a>, and now all of big media is breathing down his neck?<\/p>\n

I just spoke to Senator Franken’s office – you can contact them here<\/a><\/p>\n

The OpenCongress page<\/a> will give you an idea of the supporters of this bill.<\/p>\n

If you want to read more about this issue, the “Protect Innovation<\/a>” website will give you a rundown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Domain Name System (DNS) is a foundational block upon which the Internet has been built and upon which its continued functioning critically depends; it is among a handful of protocols upon which almost every other protocol, and countless Internet applications, rely to operate smoothly. Read more here: don’t break the internet – stanford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,12],"tags":[237,235,234],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-politics","tag-dns","tag-protect-ip","tag-sopa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-w2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}