ACTA: Worse than SOPA and PIPA combined!
Quote of the Day: “(ACTA is) more dangerous than SOPA. It’s not coming to me for a vote. It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it.” - Rep. Darrell Issa Last month, we joined [...]
Stop Internet Censorship, Take Action TODAY
Today hundreds of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — have gone dark. They’re protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship.1 Thousands of supporters of the open Internet will soon rally [...]
Why is the mainstream media being so quiet about SOPA?
You’ve probably heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a bill in the House that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship. Opposition to the bill has reached a boiling point. Millions of activists, hundreds of startups, social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter and even big companies like Google, Yahoo! and eBay have [...]
The Internet Choke Act
You’ve heard the term: ”What a difference a day makes?” Right. I’ve got a new one for you: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WORD MAKES! Again. The Obama administration is playing “semantics” with us by changing the wording on the highly-unpopular Internet “Kill Switch” bill (from the last session of Congress) to the newly-improved “Cyber Security and Internet [...]
Why you need to oppose the Internet “kill switch” bill
“Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its internet, in the case of war, we need to have that here too.” – Senator Joe Lieberman The “Internet kill switch” bill was promoted by Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins in the last Congress. The bill would have granted President Obama the power to shut [...]
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