Revised net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too

arstechnica.com

57 points·yeahsure··5 comments

The idea that we are even considering an internet censorship bill in the United States is appalling; and for IP protection of all issues.

Also, how long will it be after it is enforced that the affected sites start moving to underground networks like I2P?

That's sufficient, really. China's firewall can be penetrated, it's just too much of a bother for the average citizen - which suffices to maintain stability.

This is not China. This is the free world. How many tweets would there be, facebook pages, articles, etc.

We, unlike china, have the right to speak freely.

I'd like to see the arguments for a bill like this. What exactly can they say that prevents it from infringing on the basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights

The other shoe drops:

"Last week, when the Department of Homeland Security leaned on Mozilla to remove a Firefox add-on making it simple to bypass domain name seizures, we wondered at the request. After all, the add-on only made it easier to do a simple Google search, and we wondered "what the next logical step in this progression will be: requiring search engines to stop returning results for seized domain names?" Turns out that's exactly what's being contemplated."

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