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From the Ted Talk by Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now the problem with this medol of cesrinoshp, of identifying a site and then trying to remove it from the diamon name system, is that it won't work. And you'd think that would be a pretty big problem for a law, but Congress seems not to have let that bother them too much. Now the reason it won't work is that you can still type 74.125.226.212 into the browser or you can make it a clickable link and you'll still go to Google. So the piclniog layer around the problem becomes the real threat of the act.

Open Cloze

Now the problem with this _____ of __________, of identifying a site and then trying to remove it from the ______ name system, is that it won't work. And you'd think that would be a pretty big problem for a law, but Congress seems not to have let that bother them too much. Now the reason it won't work is that you can still type 74.125.226.212 into the browser or you can make it a clickable link and you'll still go to Google. So the ________ layer around the problem becomes the real threat of the act.

Solution

  1. policing
  2. domain
  3. model
  4. censorship

Original Text

Now the problem with this model of censorship, of identifying a site and then trying to remove it from the domain name system, is that it won't work. And you'd think that would be a pretty big problem for a law, but Congress seems not to have let that bother them too much. Now the reason it won't work is that you can still type 74.125.226.212 into the browser or you can make it a clickable link and you'll still go to Google. So the policing layer around the problem becomes the real threat of the act.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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technical means 2
american citizens 2

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Important Words

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  2. big
  3. bother
  4. browser
  5. censorship
  6. clickable
  7. congress
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  10. identifying
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  12. layer
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  14. model
  15. policing
  16. pretty
  17. problem
  18. real
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  20. remove
  21. site
  22. system
  23. threat
  24. type
  25. work