The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry.
— From an open letter to Congress signed by 83 Internet engineers expressing their opposition to SOPA and PIPA
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