TorrentFreak – Behind the Curtain: The Three-Year Journey to the Block BEARD Site Blocking Act

Sep 052025
 

During the first half of 2022, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis was working on a proposal to put forward in a new pirate site blocking bill.
The text of the No-Fault Copyright Remedy Act (NFCRA) was shared among stakeholders but wasn’t announced to the public.
A decade had passed since the first attempt to introduce site-blocking legislation backfired in 2012. For NFCRA, copyright holders and Internet service providers were brought on board early with the aim of negotiating a mutually agreed text.
That hoped-for agreement never came. Rightsholders and ISPs submitted proposed amendments that would take the bill in different directions, widening the gap instead of closing it.
The NFCRA draft 

After the failed attempt to make progress behind closed doors, things…

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– The Conversation – Home – Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing

Sep 052025
 

When jurors aren’t involved, rulings are less public − and private interests have more influence over outcomes. ftwitty/E+ via Getty ImagesThe right to trial by jury in criminal and civil cases is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It’s also a critically important way in which citizens can participate in democracy. The French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville observed early American juries at work. He noted in “Democracy in America” in 1831 that trial by jury “places the real direction of society in the hands of the governed, or of a portion of the governed, instead of leaving it under the authority of the Government.” Yet, in a change with profound implications, juries now decide only…

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