So long SOPA and PIPA, hello Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill proposed last November to give the …
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What Europe’s ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Has in Common with SOPA
In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth employs a “memory hole” to eliminate inconvenient facts. If a previously published photo or record later proves to be embarrassing for the government, it is thrown down the …
Why We Won’t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout
The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success — with dozens of members of Congress switching their stance in one day under the withering intensity of thousands of phone calls — surprised …
SOPA Officially ‘Postponed’ Until Further Notice – PIPA, Too
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) released a statement saying he’d be shelving the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill he’d authored in light of recent criticism. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) issued a similar …
Did It Work? ‘Day After’ Results of the SOPA, PIPA Blackout
Google has dropped its logo shroud, Wikipedia has returned from limbo, normal service in general has been resumed, and all’s right with the world … except that SOPA and PIPA are still looming on Capitol Hill. So did yesterday’s …
So the Internet Loves Wikipedia – But Should It?
I admit it; the idea of suggesting that any kind of political protest can end up having “winners” and “losers” feels more than a little as if I’ve missed the point of protesting, or at least have a particularly biased interest in …
SOPA Protests Gain Steam as Web Activists Flex Growing Clout
Google Slows Web Crawler to Reduce Penalization of Blacked-Out Sites
Apparently Google’s protest of SOPA goes beyond a black Google Doodle. Its engineers have also slowed down the search engine’s web crawlers, meaning sites that are blacked out today in protest won’t suffer as much in Google’s …
MPAA Chairman Calls SOPA Blackouts a ‘Dangerous’ Gimmick
If you thought that today’s blackout by Wikipedia, Reddit, the Cheezburger Network and other sites was a legitimate political protest against SOPA and PIPA, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chairman Chris Dodd would …
Paint It Black: 7 Ways You Can Protest SOPA and PIPA
So it’s lights out for Wikipedia, a blacked-over logo for Google, Reddit closing up for 12 hours and thousands of others shuttering for a day to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) — what can you …
Don’t Understand SOPA? Help Is Close at Hand
With Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites offline today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, you might be wondering “What’s so bad about SOPA, anyway?” Luckily, the answer to your question is just a couple of clicks away.
How to Survive Wednesday’s Wikipedia Blackout
Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would allow the U.S. government to cut off funding sources to foreign websites accused of piracy by rights holders.
Wikipedia’s …