Yeah, this is nuts. It also allows any rights holder to take action (via "private right of action" -- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110510/13285714230/son-coica-protect-ip-act-will-allow-broad-censorship-powers-including-copyright-holders.shtml) against a website or other operator to bring a court order against it based on their claim (if I got that correct from reading various articles).
Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Researcher Microsoft Research New England http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]> wrote: > Have people been following this today? It's a new version of COICA that is > yet another attempt to censor the internet on the basis of "protecting > copyright." This bill would be a disaster for a free and open web. > > > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/revised-net-censorship-bill-requires-search-engines-to-block-sites-too.ars > > Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of >> a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much >> broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit >> card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign >> "rogue sites"—and such court orders would not be limited to the government. >> Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too. >> As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being >> targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring >> quick action against each new variation. >> Get ready for the "PROTECT IP Act." > > > > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110511/00115314234/full-text-protect-ip-act-released-good-bad-horribly-ugly.shtml > > Also on the "horribly ugly" side of things is the extension of this bill to >> cover search engines. That is, when the Attorney General uses the law, one >> of the things that can be done is obtaining an order saying search engines >> must no longer link to certain sites. This seems like a massive form of >> meddling in how a search engine operates. I also can't see how it could >> survive First Amendment scrutiny. It's a blatant case of the government >> telling a search engine what it can and cannot link to in its index. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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