The House and Senate are both drafting "rogue sites" legislation that will likely support website blocking at the domain name level and will require online ad networks and credit card companies to stop working with sites on the blacklist. That idea is controversial enough when only the government has the power to pursue the censoring; it gets even more controversial if private companies get the right to bring a censorship action in court without waiting for government to act.
Both houses of Congress are considering such a "private right of action" as they work to review and revise last year's COICA Web censorship bill, but Google can't say strongly enough what a bad idea this would be.
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