The Internet Blacklist Legislation -- known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House -- is a security threat that must be stopped.

That kind of language goes against the knee-jerk reaction I have to fearmongering. But in this case, it is necessary.

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Even though it's not the bill's intent, the language would give the government power to squash any website it deems in violation of the law. If a big technology company were to object to content posted on a security research site or blog -- details of a software vulnerability, for example -- it could lean on the government to block it. The big vendors would then be free to sit on vulnerabilities for as long as they wanted.