George Beech - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What about other certs? (Score 1) 117

by George Beech on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:47PM (#26409027) Attached to: Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams

The CCIE - which is what they are doing this for - already has a practical section. You have to go to Cisco's site and they setup a broken network that you need to fix. I believe it's a week long affair that is graded by cisco's experts.

Submission + - Domain Registrars Censoring the Internet

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31, 2007 @02:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Domain registrars and hosting providers routinely take sites off line when the contain illegal content, or are involved in spamming or fraud. These companies assert an absolute right to make these decisions without oversight, and we just assume they are right.

So, what happens if they are wrong?

Writing here the owner of a bittorrent site describes how two different Registrars/DNS Hosts have blocked the site, even though the actual host has no problem with it.

No big deal, right? Because bittorrent is illegal, and anybody using it must be involved in piracy. At least that is apparently the logic of the DNS providers DynDNS and Sitelutions.

In fact, the owner, who goes by the handle "Dr.E," says that the site is a "bittorrent news site. We do not operate a tracker, we do not host any torrent files, or directly link to any torrent files." He says that "I personally am a strong advocated for copyright law reform, and the site does encourage users to take full advantage of their rights to use material within the law, but those positions are completely legitimate, and espousing them is constitutionally protected free speech."

There is a big difference between opposing piracy and supporting censorship, and when some of the largest registrars are actively involved in censoring the internet, it should make people take notice.

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