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scrrr on June 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites...

The world wide web. Off topic, but I think we tend to forget that most legislation affects websites. Nothing keeps you from writing your own version of DNS, your own protocol (who says it has to be HTTP) etc. That's the beauty of TCP/IP! :)

toyg on June 18, 2014 [–]

They'll just start writing laws regulating TCP/IP instead. They already do in China, after all.

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