Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Censors are on the march … seemingly everywhere. Strike them down one place, they pop up three others. Or, in the U.S., two: the House and the Senate. ‘Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced a new pirate site blocking bill, titled the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act,’ we read at Torrent Freak, which goes on to tell us that, in late July, ‘a similar proposal was introduced by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff. The bipartisan bill, titled Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD), aims to introduce a legal mechanism for rightsholders to request site blocking orders.’ Ostensibly, the Block BEARD Act targets websites accused of harboring pirated materials. But Reclaim the Net observes that the legislation would establish ‘a formal, court-approved process that could be used to make entire websites vanish from the American internet.'” (08/06/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/06/website-suppression/