Save the Internet!

[vonunov]

Everyone should worry about this, not just Americans! This will affect the worldwide internet. Not only can this bill allow the government to compel domestic domain registrars to take domains offline, but it can also compel ISPs to cooperate on demand with blocking Americans' access to foreign websites that are found to be "dedicated" to infringement of US intellectual property. Of course this is defined far too loosely and it is made far too easy to have a website blocked on a mere accusation. So what happens here is that it becomes easy to deprive both foreign and domestic sites of a very large country's worth of traffic, ad revenue, etc., even if it doesn't really deserve it, and without due process.