一篇名為《阻止美國防火長城》的紐約時報客座社論描述：「中國操縱著世界上最精心製作的、最不透明的互聯網審查制度。但是國會......正在考慮著一項誤導性的立法，該立法將鞏固中國的防火長城，甚至將其主要特色都帶到美國。」罪魁禍首是之前被提出的「杜絕網上盜版行動」（Stop Online Piracy Act）。該行動聽起來很好，直到你讀到「本議案授予普通律師以創建將被互聯網服務提供商（ISP）、搜索引擎、付款提供商以及廣告網路封禁的網站黑名單以權力，無需走庭審聽證程序。」這與安全部（Department of Homeland Security）以違反版權之名強奪網站而不持有法理當有的（constitutionally-required）法院命令相當貌似。如果你不是美國公民，你也應該關心，為什麼呢？閱讀這篇來自Techdirt網站的文章，看美國是如何查封了一個被西班牙法庭判為
合法的西班牙域名。
轉載請註明：Linux人社區>英文資訊翻譯專版.編譯
英文原文： [img=15,15]http://www.osnews.com/images/gstaroff.gif[/img] The Great Firewall of America?
posted by Howard Fosdick on Thu 17th Nov 2011 08:05 UTC
[img=32,32]http://www.osnews.com/images/icons/44.gif[/img]A New York Times guest editorial titled
Stop the Great Firewall of America says "China operates the world's most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress... is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China's Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America." The culprit is the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. Sounds good until you read that "The bills empower the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites to be blocked by Internet service providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks, all without a court hearing or a trial." Rather like the Department of Homeland Security's seizure of websites for copyright violations without the constitutionally-required court orders. If you're not an American citizen, why should you care? Read this Techdirt article telling how the U.S. seized a Spanish domain name that had already been declared
legal by the Spanish courts.
