[ArsTechnica] Revised ‘Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too

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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« — […]

[…] 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.[…]
[…] « 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.[…]

The emphasis here is on forcing intermediaries to get involved in policing such sites.[…]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/revised-net-censorship-bill-requires-search-engines-to-block-sites-too.ars