A new bill introduced in Congress would allow U.S. federal courts to issue site blocking orders that broadband providers and public domain name system resolvers would be required to execute, according to the bill text.
The legislation, titled the Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property Act, or DEFEND IP, was introduced by Senator Thom Tillis and Representative Zoe Lofgren, according to Reclaim The Net. The bill combines two earlier proposals: Lofgren’s Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act and Tillis’s Block BEARD [1].
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