SOPA, PIPA and Tech Support

The following link is a single forum post on dslreports.com of people having trouble with IP routing on a single router type on a single service type from AT&T.

This forum goes on for 4 pages. Many people in the post say they have been working on the problem for weeks. There are many threads like this for many routers from many providers.

U-Verse Static IP's: Not Working, Can't figure out problem

The point is that this is the technology that SOPA and PIPA would give beurocrats license to mess with. How would they mess with it? With care? With their customers needs in mind? No! With a moral justification to do anything they feel they need to do to protect the public.

This is the number of steps of IP addresses that my post will take on it's way to be posted to the Blogger website. It is not exactly where SOPA and PIPA would be insinuating the influence of bearocratic whim. But it does give you some idea of the complexity of the system. If these steps below are not completed, the post does not get posted.

Tracing route to blogger.com [173.194.64.191]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 8 ms 7 ms 2 ms 192.168.16.1
2 29 ms 32 ms 27 ms 99-71-132-2.lightspeed.breaca.sbcglobal.net [99.
71.132.2]
3 * 31 ms 32 ms 75.20.0.64
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 27 ms 25 ms 24 ms 12.83.38.129
6 28 ms 25 ms 27 ms gar10.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.104.45]
7 112 ms 111 ms 112 ms 12.248.3.6
8 29 ms 27 ms 36 ms 64.233.174.41
9 27 ms 29 ms 27 ms 64.233.174.186
10 91 ms 66 ms 64 ms 64.233.174.143
11 69 ms 73 ms 76 ms 209.85.243.178
12 75 ms 67 ms 67 ms 216.239.46.39
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 69 ms 69 ms 71 ms oa-in-f191.1e100.net [173.194.64.191]

Trace complete.

Sure there are back-up routes, but the routes and backup routes are maintained by people. Now imagine this whole system, but instead of the 4 pages of tech support on this router, where people are trying to overcome the arbitrary decisions of engineers who were at least building something, we would add in to the mess the arbitrary decisions of beaurocrats who are trying to impress their boss, or not get in trouble with their boss.