Architect of SOPA finally starting to back down a little, more major websites joining the protest

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Architect of SOPA finally starting to back down a little, more major websites joining the protest

Not sure if it has anything to do with it, but now with much of the internet digging in for a real battle, the architect of the legislation, Texas congressman Lamar Smith has started to back down and redo some of the language in the bill, specifically the part about DNS blocking.

Less than 24-hours after promising not to yield, the Texas congressman and author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Lamar Smith is yielding on the bill’s controversial language that would allow the government to censor the Internet — for now. “After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision,” Smith said in a Friday afternoon press release. “We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers.”

After Reddit announced they were going on an anti-SOPA blackout on January 18th, other major sites have joined the fight. All of the Cheezburger Network, Good Old Games, Mojang and Destructoid have vowed they will also go on blackout on the 18th.

CBZ:
IHC will also be joining the protest on the 18th, but we’re not going to be completely content free, but the site will be SOPA-compliant. More details coming soon.

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