<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF<br />| from the by-any-other-name dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 09, @00:15 (Government)<br />| with 71 comments<br />| <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]hessian writes with this quote from the Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />about the Stop Online Piracy Act: "Of course the word 'blacklist' does<br />not appear in the bill's text — the folks who wrote it know Americans<br />don't approve of blatant censorship. The early versions of PROTECT-IP,<br />the Senate's counterpart to SOPA, did include an explicit Blacklist<br />Provision, but this transparent attempt at extrajudicial censorship was<br />so offensive that the Senate had to re-write that part of the bill.<br />However, provisions that encourage unofficial blacklisting remained, and<br />[1]they are still alive and well in SOPA. First, the new law would allow<br />the Attorney General to cut off sites from the Internet, essentially<br />'blacklisting' companies from doing business on the web. Under section<br />102, the Attorney General can seek a court order that would force search<br />engines, DNS providers, servers, payment processors, and advertisers to<br />stop doing business with allegedly infringing websites. Second, the bill<br />encourages private corporations to create a literal target list—a process<br />that is ripe for abuse."<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="http://www.deathmetal.org/">http://www.deathmetal.org/</a><br />1. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/stop-online-piracy-act-blacklist-any-other-name-still-blacklist">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/stop-online-piracy-act-blacklist-any-other-name-still-blacklist</a></p>