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Democratic governments having that power seems reasonable: they have to follow a legal process and seizing a domain is rare — if I was worried about government overreach I’d want, say, physical detention to be as fair a process as seizing a domain or bank account is.

ISPs can’t take your domain and blocking is quite rare - usually just active malware attacks - but that seems like an argument for regulating them as utilities because they’re a natural chokepoint and as such many people do not have the option of switching.




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