during the U.S. debate on SOPA and PIPA, the Motion Picture Association of America circulated a report written by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a rightsholder-dominated think tank, that argued that the censorship measures in SOPA and PIPA would probably work, because they were the same measures already in use in China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
