Someone used bogus #copyright complaints to remove news stories critical of #Florida #Republican Michael Carbonara from #Google search results. "Carbonara’s campaign has denied any involvement." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4707237/dmca-takedown-abuse-political-censorship/ @bc_butler gets to the heart of it: "This isn’t a glitch; it’s a predictable feature of a broken system. Civil liberties advocates have warned for decades that the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown regime effectively hands bad actors a low-cost, automated censorship button." #Censorship #Copyfraud #USPol #USPolitics