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SOPA Stopped in House Until “Consensus” Reached
In the end, it was not necessarily the White House’s opposition as much as the pressure on House Republicans that has all but doomed anti-piracy legislation for the year. Darrell Issa, who along with...
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Wikipedia Shutting Down to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills in Congress
Despite the fact that SOPA looks dead in the House, PIPA, the Senate’s version of anti-piracy legislation, hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s true that six Republicans wrote to Harry Reid asking for a...
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SOPA Strike Still Set for Tomorrow; More Websites Join
As I noted yesterday, organizers of the SOPA strike got a boost when Wikipedia said they would shut down operations tomorrow, in protest of anti-piracy legislation that could constrain their business....
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Google Joins SOPA Strike with Homepage Action
The biggest Internet presence in the world will have something to add to the growing online protests against anti-piracy legislation, though they won’t go as far as shutting down their operations....
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SOPA Strike: Thousands of Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation
Wired is censored today. So is TBogg’s mini-site. The Google doodle is blacked out. And part of Daily Kos. And a lead story at The Huffington Post. And even right here. Sites like Wikipedia and Reddit...
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Marco Rubio, Former PIPA Co-Sponsor, Comes Out Against the Bill
The series of anti-SOPA activism going on today has already claimed an early victory. Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator and Tea Party favorite, dropped his support after being a co-sponsor of the bill....
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SOPA Activism Moves Republicans More Than Democrats
Yesterday’s SOPA strike was enormously successful, not only raising attention to the issue but moving a tremendous amount of politicians for a one-day event. Over 4.5 million people signed Google’s...
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PIPA Just a Few Votes From Defeat on Cloture
UPDATE: The update from this morning is that Harry Reid has postponed work on the bill. Go read that. We are very close to being able to predict a loss for the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, in next week’s...
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SOPA Also Dies; Anti-Piracy Push Languishes for Now
After the death of PIPA this morning comes the news that Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee who planned on resuming the markup of SOPA, the House version of anti-piracy...
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Twitter Allows for Censorship of Tweets in Individual Countries
I think we should definitely be concerned that Twitter is bowing to pressure and allowing for the censorship of tweets in individual foreign countries. Twitter has refined its technology so it can...
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Wall St Gambling, backed by the Fed. Keep the gains and have the Fed cover the losses. What’s not to like?
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Yeah, if a Wall Street whore like Jack Lew is opposed to this, then you know the “derivative regulations” didn’t mean jack sh*t to begin with.
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When Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton are elected President in 2016 it will all be gutted anyway. That’s if it’s ever actually fully enacted. Meanwhile Obama can posture like he actually stands for something.
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Wikipedia Shutting Down to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills in Congress
Despite the fact that SOPA looks dead in the House, PIPA, the Senate’s version of anti-piracy legislation, hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s true that six Republicans wrote to Harry Reid asking for a...
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SOPA Strike Still Set for Tomorrow; More Websites Join
As I noted yesterday, organizers of the SOPA strike got a boost when Wikipedia said they would shut down operations tomorrow, in protest of anti-piracy legislation that could constrain their business....
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Google Joins SOPA Strike with Homepage Action
The biggest Internet presence in the world will have something to add to the growing online protests against anti-piracy legislation, though they won’t go as far as shutting down their operations....
View ArticleClik here to view.
SOPA Strike: Thousands of Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation
Wired is censored today. So is TBogg’s mini-site. The Google doodle is blacked out. And part of Daily Kos. And a lead story at The Huffington Post. And even right here. Sites like Wikipedia and Reddit...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marco Rubio, Former PIPA Co-Sponsor, Comes Out Against the Bill
The series of anti-SOPA activism going on today has already claimed an early victory. Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator and Tea Party favorite, dropped his support after being a co-sponsor of the bill....
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