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I agree. I am anti-SOPA, but this is not censorship so much as an overzealous attempt to stop spam, executed poorly. Did they do a wildcard block/hold/whatever on a top level domain of yours *.mydomain.com so all your sub domains got blocked? I'm guessing some goober at bluehost just went one step farther than he should have in just removing the one DNS entry, and they definitely should have contacted you. Sounds like poor customer service.

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And if SOPA passes you will see suspiciously simil overzealuos attempts to stop piracy. Same song, different verse but this time you get the federal government involved which is a whole new level of fun.

I agree http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409045

This is true, and it makes me thing of all of the private sector solutions that are already available. The market creates the solutions and does not need government interference slowing it down or making dispute resolutions more complicated.

No hosting provider should ever modify customer DNS without the customer requesting.

Boycott Bluehost!

In the U.S., censorship will very likely travel under the guise of some "overzealous attempt" to stop this, that or the other.

SOPA's censorship problem is not the explicit endorsement of censorship but the precedent of mechanisms and principles that will make censorship far easier to implement and "justify".

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