Tag: PIPA

SOPA and PIPA Bills Lack Common Sense
Did you know that a majority of new laws passed on our books in this country get passed via the efforts of special interest groups and lobbyists? What does that mean? It means a sm...
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Facebook Expresses Relief At SOPA / PIPA Delay
Facebook has expressed their relief this afternoon at the House and Senate decisions to delay action on SOPA and PIPA for the time being. Here is the posting from the page for Face...
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SOPA: Twitter Weighs In On GOP Debate
As we reported earlier, all four candidates in last night's GOP debate in South Carolina stated their...
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Chris Dodd Talks SOPA/PIPA Shelving
Everybody's favorite former Senator and MPAA boss, Chris Dodd, must not be in a great mood these days after both...
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Clay Shirky Discusses The Bad Ideas That Are SOPA and PIPA
It's apparent that the SOPA/PIPA-inspired Internet blackouts raised the public's conscious concerning the anti-piracy legislation Washington is trying to push on the very citizens...
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SOPA/PIPA Congressional Support Nosedives, OR The Internet’s Little Victories
Back when we first covered SOPA Opera, the tool created by Dan Nguye...
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“Father Of The Web” Tim Berners-Lee Comes Out Against SOPA / PIPA
The inventor of the World Wide Web has come out against SOPA and PIPA. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web in 1989, called the legislation a...
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BREAKING: Harry Reid Delays PIPA Vote
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to postpone action on the Protect IP Act. In a statement, Reid said "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday'...
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SOPA: GOP Candidates All Agree
Last night's CNN debate in South Carolina found all four remaining GOP candidates in harmony on one issue at least. They all feel that SOPA is overreaching and needs to be rethough...
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Anonymous: OpMegaUpload Largest Attack In History
Anonymous struck down government and industry Web sites yesterday in the biggest Anonymous operation in their history. After the take down of MegaUpload and arrest of those ass...
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Mitch McConnell On PIPA: Put It On Ice
Wednesday's internet-wide SOPA / PIPA protests, by many measures, were greatly successful. Google said that on that day alone, 4.5 million people...
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Exclusive: SOPA, From a Filmmaker’s Perspective
Jeff Day makes independent films. The budget for his 2010 production, "Unrequited" was just under $2 Millio...
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SOPA / PIPA: Orrin Hatch Withdraws Support After Blackout
Yesterday’s SOPA blackout is turning out to be an amazingly effective protest. After angry internet users spent yesterday calling and emailing their Congressional representatives (...
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Craig Newmark: Could SOPA, PIPA Protest Prompt An “Internet Spring”?
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org and SOPA protester, may have christened yesterday's massive protest ag...
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Wikipedia’s SOPA / PIPA Blackout Seen By 162 Million People
Everybody make it through yesterday's Internet-wide protest? Everyone still in one piece? Good. Now, let's take a moment to consider the aftermath of Wikipedia's...
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