The Great Firewall of America

Ability to order search engines to censor results. The right to seize websites and domain names. The right of corporate entities to order that payment processing for a site be halted. Makes it a crime to attempt to access censored sites, and a felony to view video streams of “copyrighted” material, like of a child singing Beat It.

This is an American bill under review. This was sponsored by US representatives, under the auspices of combating copyright infringement online, which in the past has been a civil matter for private entities to take to court. It will now be used as the vanguard of the biggest attack of censorship the US has seen in a very long time, and it will also affect citizens of other nations.

The Great Firewall of America