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Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION · Katharine Trendacosta ·

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There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. DEFEND IP Act, and all of…

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