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seizing != blocking

Blocking sounds like the US is blocking access to those sites from the US. In the same fashion certain countries would censor sites by blocking access to them from within their networks.

Seizing is taking control of the infrastructure (or domain name) to take a site online globally.

It sounds like this was a seizure.



p.s. this was only possible because a US entity (VeriSign) controls the .com TLD, and therefore any .com domain is subject to this sort of action.




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