Protect IP Act Gives Government Power to Seize Websites On a Whim

Law professors warn that new legislation allows state to seize websites merely for linking to other websites that host copyrighted material


New legislation that would give the US government the power to seize website domains on a whim with no oversight merely for linking to sites that host copyrighted material has been labeled a hallmark of “repressive regimes” by a group of law professors who warn that the bill allows the state to “break the Internet addressing system”.

Protect IP Act Gives Government Power to Seize Websites On a Whim


The Protect IP bill, currently stalled in the Senate, represents a death blow to Internet freedom of speech. It would turn the entire web into a clone of the YouTube model, which routinely censors and deletes material when requested to by governments or corporations and shuts down user channels without recourse.


The legislation merely codifies what Homeland Security is already practicing, seizing and shutting down websites without any form of legal proceedings and in many cases not even notifying the owner.

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Also, be sure to check out last year's widely circulated expose of the government's crackdown in the internet...

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