Tag: SOPA

Would SOPA Be Better Without The RIAA’s Influence?
While much of the focus concerning the SOPA/PIPA bills points towards the government officials who are sponsoring these acts, are there other potential, perhaps obvious contributor...
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Data: People Don’t Actually Care That GoDaddy Supports SOPA
As if the news that the failure of MoveYourDomain Day wasn't discouraging enough, here's m...
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TV News Turns Blind Eye Towards SOPA Coverage
Here's an interesting query: If you were a general manager of local CBS affiliate and you noticed a great deal of Internet traction concerning steps the US government is trying to...
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SOPA Supporter/Opponent Database Demonstrates A Lack Of Patterns
In the fight against SOPA (or any ridiculous action taken by those in power), knowledge is key. There have been various attempts to build lists or databases to categorize both ind...
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Al Gore Doesn’t Like SOPA, Either
Did you really expect the "inventor" of the Internet to agree with a bill that's so potentially damaging to the foundation on which the web resides, even if he himself doesn't know...
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Tweet #AskState To Ask Questions Directly to U.S. State Department
As we bore into the year that is 2012, the U.S. Department of State has chosen to step up their Internet vocab by inviting Twitter users to submit questions to them throughout the...
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U.S. Pressured Spain To Pass Site Blocking Law
According to a letter obtained by El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, the United States was most displeased to learn that Spanish President Luis Rodriguez Zapatero would not pass the Sin...
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Reddit Responds To Lamar Smith
Earlier this week, Representative Lamar Smith, one of they key sponsors of the oft-discussed SOPA legislation, issued something of a challenge to Reddit users, calling them a vocal...
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SOPA Ignores Simple Truths Concerning Piracy
It's true that SOPA has been denounced by many industry giants that make their living in on the Internet. Normally, when such rejections are voiced, the wording of SOPA is normall...
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[Exclusive] Can Hackers Create a SOPA-Proof Internet?
What's the shortest distance between two points? If you said a straight line, then you just earned a self-high five. We here at WebProNews we have already given you a guide on...
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No SOPA Chrome Extension Notifies You When You Visit Sites That Hate The Internet
Worried that your average, everyday interweb browsing could be inadvertently supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act? Well, you're in luck. Now there's an extension for your Chro...
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Preparedness In a Post-SOPA World
Hopefully, the Louis Pasteur quote subtitling this article motivates you enough to prepare yourself for a post-SOPA world, one where the Internet, as we know it, is rendered into a...
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Lamar Smith Responds To Critics, Reddit
Unless you reside in the state he represents -- Texas -- probably the only reason you've heard the name of Lamar Smith in the past month or so is because of SOPA, the Stop Online P...
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Ron Paul Courts Internet Voters By Denouncing SOPA
While he may not win the 2012 presidential election, there's no denying Ron Paul is leaving a mark on the political process, and he is becoming a threat to, at the very least,...
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Previously, Lamar Smith Supported A Non-Regulated Internet
About five years ago, during hearings concerning the adoption of net neutrality rules, Lamar Smith, the US House Representative who introduced SOPA to the world, had a much differe...
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