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There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. DEFEND IP Act, and all of these
Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name08d9c1cd2700a1fa13d7b68bdd07044180c25ca1cee73f5d3dce4e15c249b9b6Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.
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