"When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or control. We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating censorship-compliance as a design requirement for new Internet innovations. This can only damage the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power over what their citizens can read and publish."
–

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

Let the first eight words of this paragraph wash over your brain for a little bit…

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