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I am embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? (regarding this from the link)

"Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control:

127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 www.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 m.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 gawker.com 127.0.0.1 www.gawker.com 127.0.0.1 m.gawker.com "

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It redirects those urls so you can't access them from your computer. It's the simplest way to block a site.

Duh! Thank you for wasting your time to answer me. I have no idea why that didn't register. So now anything on his network will fail to load those URL's; rather I was thinking there was something larger at play that was going to be disruptive beyond his local. Don't ask why I was assuming this.

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