Lanham Napier, the chief executive officer of the web hosting company Rackspace
Lanham Napier, the chief executive officer of the web hosting company Rackspace Illustration by Rackspace / Todd Wiseman
AUDIO: TT Interview with Lanham Napier

Lanham Napier, chief executive officer of the web hosting company Rackspace, explains the potential harm of Domain Name System blocking and why Texas businesses like Rackspace are opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act. This TT Interview took place before U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, who authored the bill, released a statement saying he plans to take out the DNS blocking provisions in the bill.

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Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...