U.S. Anti-Piracy Bills See Headline Blocking Claim Squeezed By Democracy
In 2012, America missed a golden opportunity to show the world how site blocking and other internet restrictions could be deployed at scale to protect rightsholders’ revenues. Vast opposition led to the SOPA bill being withdrawn but elsewhere, site blocking was being introduced in one country after another, driven by the same core rightsholders. Claims that the United States needed to catch up led to a new push towards site blocking....
