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Since the amendment is propossed, that confirms that SOPA would, otherwise, ban Tor. Until the amendment is actually in SOPA, that's the reaility: Tor will be banned by SOPA.


I would need more than that to consider as confirmation. It looks to me like it wouldn't fit under their definition, although it is quite ambiguous.

   a product or service designed or marketed for the 
   circumvention or bypassing of measures described in 
   paragraph (2) and taken in response to a court order 
   issued pursuant to this subsection includes a product or 
   service that is designed or marketed to enable a domain 
   name described in such an order--


Tor is designed to circunvent censorship, including SOPA. So yes, it matches the definition.


It is not however designed the specific censorship legislated by SOPA. It sure sounds like it is addressing MAFIAAfire (and DeSOPA), but not generalized tools like tor.

I guess we'll see.




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