"PROTECT IP" indicates Government Liberals are just this side of Fascists

“The Act would allow courts to order any Internet service to stop recognizing [a] site even on a temporary restraining order… issued the same day the complaint is filed,” [law professors] write. Such a restraining order, which they describe as “the equivalent of an Internet death penalty,” raises serious constitutional questions.

The Supreme Court has held that it’s unconstitutional to suppress speech without an “adversary proceeding.” That is, a speaker must, at a minimum, be given the opportunity to tell his side of the story to a judge before his speech can be suppressed.

Yet under PIPA, a judge decides whether to block a domain after hearing only from the government.

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