PIPA
Looks like Senator Chuck Grassley's Twitter account has been hacked.
What looks like a rogue user has been firing off tweets for the past few minutes. The tweets have been pretty tame so far, though he did say he wanted Herman Cain to be president th... Read the rest of this entry »
Sen. Harry Reid has postponed Tuesday's vote on the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), a bill that could encourage online censorship and sister bill to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), according to ThinkProgress.
SOPA and PIPA both are written in such a way th... Read the rest of this entry »
Sen. Harry Reid has postponed Tuesday's vote on the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), a bill that could encourage online censorship and sister bill to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), according to ThinkProgress.
SOPA and PIPA both are written in such a way th... Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, you couldn't access Wikipedia and thousands of other sites because the sites were protesting two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA).
Like the Occupy Movement, this movement started from somewhere. The ... Read the rest of this entry »
Oregan's Democratic Senator Ron Wyden is about to become an internet folk-legend.
Here is his letter to the internet:
January 18, 2012 Innovators, Speakers, Thinkers, and Agents for ChangeThe World Wide Web Dear Friends: Today th... Read the rest of this entry »
Khan Academy just posted a complete breakdown of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA).
If you've never heard of the bill, this is the best place to start. SOPA and PIPA both are written in such a way that the bills could promot... Read the rest of this entry »
Along with a ton of websites going dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA), tech communities around the world started protests against the bill.
New York was no exception, with hundreds of tech geeks showing up ... Read the rest of this entry »
Earlier today, a blogger reported that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced he was stopping all movement on SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). This would effectively kill the controversial bill, which many high-profile techies say would result... Read the rest of this entry »
The Cheezburger network, a collection of sites that host funny images and — more infamously — funny cat pictures, will also go dark with Reddit on January 18 as part of its protest against a bill that could encourage online censorship.
Ch... Read the rest of this entry »
Reddit, an online news aggregator with about 35 million unique viewers, will go dark and show a message about how a pair of bills that could support Internet censorship would kill Reddit.
It's in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and ... Read the rest of this entry »