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duxup
>Even in US we can find certain domains which are blocked and cannot be accessed like those which contain CP or wild anti-humanism contents.

What does that mean?

I don't know of any US "filtering" outside of legal action to take a site offline.

And what is "wild anti-humanism contents."?

DATACOMMANDER
I’m guessing here, but maybe the DOJ has seized domains being used to serve child pornography and things like filmed massacres, beheadings, etc.
Mathnerd314
The FBI occasionally seizes websites, it's really a government action rather than a (private) legal action: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/us/politics/backpage-pros... https://kotaku.com/fbi-seizes-15-ddos-for-hire-websites-1831...

Seizures are not as bad as the ISP-level blocks like the UK or Australia or China's firewall, but at this point a lot of semi-legitimate sites have learned to avoid US-based domain registrars or TLDs because the US will take them quite easily. For example sci-hub's .org got yanked after a court order.