White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites

An anonymous reader writes "While the Senate is still debating a bill that would force registrars and ISPs to block access to sites deemed 'infringing,' it appears that the White House's IP Czar is already holding meetings with ISPs, registrars and payment processors to start voluntarily blocking access to sites it doesn't like. Initially, they're focused on online pharmacies, but does anyone think it will only be limited to such sites? ICANN apparently has refused to attend the meetings, pointing out that they're 'inappropriate.' Doesn't it seem wrong for the US government to be pushing private companies to censor the Internet without due process?"

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Re:Change we can believe in

[uniquename72]

Nazi Germany was not at all socialist. Today's China is barely socialist.

Education is your friend.

Re:Change we can believe in

[Kharny]

The fact that they called themselves socialist doesn't mean they were, they were fascists

Re:Change we can believe in

[fishexe]

The fact that they called themselves socialist doesn't mean they were, they were fascists

Exactly! Most people who claim Nazis were socialists because they called themselves socialists should be informed that the coalition of Marxists, Anarchists, Syndicalists, and Liberals who fought together in the Spanish Civil War called themselves...Republicans!