Reclaim The Net(@ReclaimTheNetHQ):This is a pretty big deal: a new bill in Congress would let US courts order VPNs and DNS resolvers to block websites. VPNs are explicitly named in a US site-blocking bill for the first time. It’s being sold as an anti-piracy measure but once the legal machinery for blocking websites exists, the obvious question is where it goes from there. And we’ve already seen how badly this can go. Spain’s anti-piracy blocking has swept up legitimate sites along with the targets...

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2026.09.22 14:10

This is a pretty big deal: a new bill in Congress would let US courts order VPNs and DNS resolvers to block websites. VPNs are explicitly named in a US site-blocking bill for the first time. It’s being sold as an anti-piracy measure but once the legal machinery for blocking websites exists, the obvious question is where it goes from there. And we’ve already seen how badly this can go. Spain’s anti-piracy blocking has swept up legitimate sites along with the targets...