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Oh look! The government is trying to suppress free speech under the premise of stopping piracy! Who could have predicted this!

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/07/site-blocking-legislation-is-back-its-still-a-terrible-idea/

#FreeSpeech #openweb #FADPA

So site blocking in the US could very well become law in the near future thanks to #FADPA unless we all speak up.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

#internet #siteblocking #privacy #freespeech

Do you remember the bullshit that was once #SOPA and #PIPA? Well, apparently Congress likes raising terrible ideas from the grave. It's the same idea under a different wrapper: allow rights holders to shut down sites they don't like under the guise of copyright infringement.

It's called the Federal Anti-Digital Priacy Act - #FADPA. It's disguised as an anti-piracy bill, but the power underlying this bill means only one thing: an internet kill switch, a global blacklist.

It's censorship, full stop.
h/t @eff
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-no-to-internet-blacklists
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
#fuckcensorship

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

#USA #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #Copyright #IP #SiteBlocking #OpenWeb #DigitalRights #Piracy #FADPA #SOPA #PIPA

Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea. - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever #sopa and #pipa are back, now they are called the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (#FADPA). we must stop it #copyright

EFF Vows to Fight Back Against U.S. Site Blocking Bills

https://torrentfreak.com/eff-vows-to-fight-back-against-u-s-site-blocking-bills-250403/

#SiteBlocking #siteblocking #Anti-Piracy #fadpa #eff

Tell #Congress : No to Internet #Blacklists

#FADPA , and other proposals in the works, would force internet service providers (ISPs) and domain name system ( #DNS ) providers to block sites, including U.S. sites, based on one-sided #copyright accusations, even when those sites also host lawful content.
#isp #privacy

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-no-to-internet-blacklists

US Internet Censorship Bill, SOPA, is Coming Back

It sparked one of the biggest internet protests ever, and US lawmakers are trying to resurrect it from the grave.

In the early 2010's, one of the biggest tech stories of the time revolved around SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). The proposed legislation, at the time, was a horrible bill where all

https://www.freezenet.ca/us-internet-censorship-bill-sopa-is-coming-back/

#Censorship #Copyright #News #FADPA #legislation #MPAA #SOPA #US