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Originally Posted by Redrob
In my mind, shutting down thieving piracy sites is not the same thing as censorship as they had no right to the content in the first place. Therefore, the piracy site's rights are not being violated.
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You are completely missing the problem of the proposed legislation.
Nobody is saying that shutting down illegal piracy sites is a problem. I would love to see sites like pornbb, hotfile, fileserve, filesonic, and so on disappear.
The problem is that the proposed law removes most burden of proof from the government. It let's the doj shutdown sites without any lawsuit or hearing.
So in theory, if the gov thought your site is not a nice site, they could take it down claiming it's piracy and you then have to fight to get it back up, instead of letting you fight before they take it down.
That is the problem here!
If the law is used as it should be, we would all be happy, but without checks and balances people will just use it to censor the Internet.
If the law is used as it should, you would never see legal tube sites like ours targeted though either... So if you think this law helps somehow against the big tubes, you are horribly wrong.