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May 9, 2014 04:35 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eRtmyEskryU/congressmen-ask-ad-companies-t.html
Congressmen ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law, breakanti-trust
A murder of Congresscritters and Senators have told Internet ad-brokers that they expect them to behave as though SOPA passed into law (instead of suffering hideous, total defeat); they want the companies to establish a secret, unaccountable blacklist of "pirate" sites. The group comprises Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Adam Schiff, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Orrin Hatch. This isn't just a terrible idea, it's also an obviously illegal antitrust violation, as Mitch Stoltz from the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out: Read the rest
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