The article highlights the resurgence of proposals like the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) that could enable the government and copyright holders to block websites based on piracy allegations. Despite a significant backlash against past attempts to pass SOPA and PIPA, current members of Congress are pushing for similar legislation. Critics argue that these site-blocking measures are ineffective and threaten a free and open internet, as they often result in collateral damage by blocking unrelated sites and can easily be bypassed by users.
Turns out, Americans don't like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.
Site-blocking is both dangerously blunt and trivially easy to evade. Determined evaders can create the same content on a new domain within hours.
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