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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/protect-ip-act-gives-government-power-to-seize-websites-on-a-whim.html
New legislation that would give the US government the power to seize website domains on a whim with no oversight merely for linking to sites that host copyrighted material has been labeled a hallmark of “repressive regimes” by a group of law professors who warn that the bill allows the state to “break the Internet addressing system”.
The legislation merely codifies what Homeland Security is already practicing [2], seizing and shutting down websites without any form of legal proceedings and in many cases not even notifying the owner.
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