Stop Internet Censorship

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Friends-

We knew that members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up

to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand

Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to

be this atrocious. Last year's bill has been renamed the " PROTECT IP " Act

and it is far worse than its predecessor.

Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they

revised the bill. Instead, the new legislation would institute a China-like

censorship regime in the United States, whereby the Department of Justice

could force search engines, browsers, and service providers to block users'

access to websites, and scrub the American Internet clean of any trace of

their existence.

Will you urge Congress to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click here:

_http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?referring_akid=a1484211.

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Furthermore, it wouldn't just be the Attorney General who could add sites

to the blacklist, but the new bill would allow any copyright holder to get

sites blacklisted -- sure to result in an explosion of dubious and confused

orders.

Please help push Congress to oppose the PROTECT IP Act by clicking here:

_http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?referring_akid=a1484211.

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