[jrockway]

No, not really. Unlike China, our government is too dumb to even do it correctly.

I run my own DNS resolver. Guess what the config will be when this law passes? Step 1, try real DNS. Step 2, try open DNS. Anyone behind my firewall will have no idea that this law even exists.

Also, how does DNS affect bittorrent? I'll tell you how -- not at all.

You can't censor the Internet. Any attempt to try is just hilarious. (Remember when drugs were illegal and nobody could use them? Oh wait...)

[gasull]

No, not really. Unlike China, our government is too dumb to even do it correctly.

You can easily bypass the Great Chinese Firewall with iptables:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ignoring_the_g...

tl;dr: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j DROP