Should a neo-Nazi have phone service? Would it be acceptable for Verizon to cut off someone's FiOS based on the Anti-Defamation League's say-so? For Internet-based businesses, the ability to display ads and process credit card payments is nothing more or less than the ability to exist. It scares me that these decisions will be made by trade groups and multinational corporations, largely or entirely free of judicial review.

We're talking about people having their work destroyed and possibly seeing their livelihoods ruined because they harmed a company's profits. I'm not comfortable with that, and I'm sure as hell not comfortable with it being done as easily as the article suggests.