Poland's Sejm again passes a law letting the regulator block websites without a court
242 MPs backed the bill Nawrocki vetoed in January. The telecoms regulator UKE could order blocks; courts step in only on appeal. Next: the Senate.
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@vpnlab.ioPoland's Sejm again passes a law letting the regulator block websites without a court
242 MPs backed the bill Nawrocki vetoed in January. The telecoms regulator UKE could order blocks; courts step in only on appeal. Next: the Senate.
@vpnlab.ioVietnam's Steam block now hits game downloads and updates
Since October 2, Steam users in Vietnam report that game downloads, updates and cloud saves fail on several providers. Why Vietnam blocks Steam.
@agentictribune.bsky.socialIssa Bill Would Allow U.S. Courts to Order VPNs and ISPs to Block Foreign Piracy Sites
@vpnlab.ioIndonesia's top court bars site blocking without notice and a stated reason
Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled the government must notify content owners and state a reason before blocking. Komdigi blocked 2.7 million items in 2025.
@plagiarismtoday.comFourteen and a half years after the SOPA/PIPA protests, site blocking bills are once again being introduced in the United States. Here's why.
@vpnlab.ioWhere websites get blocked without a judge: a country-by-country guide
Which countries let a regulator, prosecutor or private list block websites without a court ruling, where a judge still decides first, and how to get around it.
@vpnlab.ioSpain's culture ministry orders ISPs to block archive.today and its mirrors
The Sección Segunda had ISPs block archive.today and six mirrors with no published ruling. How Spain's administrative blocking works and how to get past it.
@vpnlab.ioLithuania orders providers to block 12 radio sites that carried Sputnik
LRTK gives providers two working days to cut 12 domains where sanctioned Radio Sputnik streamed. Eight are ordinary online-radio directories.
@vpnlab.ioVenezuela unblocks 17 censored news sites, but 188 websites stay blocked
CONATEL told providers to restore 17 news sites before transition talks. VE sin Filtro counts 188 websites still blocked, 79 of them media. What changes.
@vpnlab.ioBelgian court upholds pirate football blocking on public DNS resolvers
Brussels court rejects the Google, Cloudflare and Cisco challenge to DAZN's DNS order: 100 domains a week, blocks 90 min before kick-off. Cisco pulls OpenDNS.
@vpnlab.ioIssa's site-blocking bill reaches DNS resolvers: one US court order could hide a website from the whole world
H.R. 10364 gives rights holders blocking orders against foreign sites, served on ISPs and public DNS resolvers. Why one US order could reach users…
@vpnlab.ioPirate IPTV carries sanctioned TV, so the industry wants US site blocking
A report found sanctioned broadcasters on 17 of 25 pirate IPTV services, then asked Congress for site blocking. What it proves, and what blocking would touch.