Ask and you will recieve:) I looked it up since you asked.
It's actually not so much "censorship" as "copyright protection". It's to keep people from streaming movies and suchlike :( It's not a *bad* bill in and of itself.
The tetchy part is that it creates a mandate that ISPs and other datamovers create filters that can screen out specified domains. It's intended to be like... xyxx.nz is a kiddy porn site in new zealand not subject to US law (we can't arrest the operators of the web site), so the Government puts them on a list, and henceforth, no US router will forward a packet to or from xyxx.nz. What has people in a tizzy is that once that capability is created, it's... pretty much going to be abused. How long after xyxx.nz is it before they declare that "hate-speech" also qualifies for listing in the "do not forward" list?
Long story short, it's another "It's not the bill, it's what the bill leads to" scenario.
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It's actually not so much "censorship" as "copyright protection". It's to keep people from streaming movies and suchlike :( It's not a *bad* bill in and of itself.
The tetchy part is that it creates a mandate that ISPs and other datamovers create filters that can screen out specified domains. It's intended to be like... xyxx.nz is a kiddy porn site in new zealand not subject to US law (we can't arrest the operators of the web site), so the Government puts them on a list, and henceforth, no US router will forward a packet to or from xyxx.nz. What has people in a tizzy is that once that capability is created, it's... pretty much going to be abused. How long after xyxx.nz is it before they declare that "hate-speech" also qualifies for listing in the "do not forward" list?
Long story short, it's another "It's not the bill, it's what the bill leads to" scenario.