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
-- -- Class of 2004 Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, India