1995-11-06 - Re: censored? corrected [Steve Pizzo cited in The Spotlight]

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From: Sten Drescher <dreschs@mpd.tandem.com>
To: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-06 14:35:06 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:35:06 +0800

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From: Sten Drescher <dreschs@mpd.tandem.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:35:06 +0800
To: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Subject: Re: censored? corrected [Steve Pizzo cited in The Spotlight]
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shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) said:

MS> If the InterNIC yanked your domain, this would *not* affect your IP
MS> connectivity -- your ability to be reached by any Internet protocol
MS> via IP address.  The InterNIC has nothing at all to do with that.

	I never disputed that subverting the DNS system would affect the
ability to use numeric IP addresses, just IP names.  But knowing that
there are multiple 'root' DNS servers makes me a bit more comfortable.
But only a little bit - despite my being one of what is generally
referred to as the 'religious right', the pro-censorship tendencies of
the political 'leaders' pandering to it makes me very uncomfortable (the
"and when they came to censor me, no one was left to protest" concept
[with apologies to the writer of the original version referring to the
Holocaust]).

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