January 20, 2012
Washington Post
Signatures to a petition against SOPA and PIPA, two internet piracy bills currently being debated in Congress, topped seven million according to Google, who used their blacked out logo as a link to the petition Wednesday. As Bloomberg reported: Read more
January 20, 2012
Financial Post
U.S. lawmakers halted controversial anti-piracy legislation Friday, delivering a stunning victory for websites like Wikipedia that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to try and kill the bills. Read more
January 14, 2012
The Globe and Mail
by Laura MacInnis
White House officials raised concerns on Saturday about online piracy legislation pending in Congress that Google and Facebook have decried as heavy-handed and Hollywood studios and music labels say is needed to save U.S. jobs. Read more
January 11, 2012
Forbes
The Stop Online Piracy Act and its counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, represent the greatest threat to a free internet we’ve seen from the US government yet. So far, the internet remains a frontier of innovation, the sharing of ideas, and free-wheeling communities. In many ways its the last unregulated bastion of free commerce in the world. And now it’s under attack. Read more
December 30, 2011
Time
by Graeme McMillan
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won’t need to; those sites, along with many other well-known online destinations, will go temporarily offline as a taste of what we could expect from a post-SOPA Internet. Read more
December 21, 2011
The Hill's Congress Blog
by Ed Black
Those who understand how the Internet works watched in horror last week as those who don’t debated how to regulate it at a mark up of the Stop Online Piracy Act. The House Judiciary committee is now poised to approve H.R. 3261. Read more
December 16, 2011
The Guardian
by Dominic Rushe
The US House Judiciary committee considering the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set. The surprise victory for the tech community came amidst a barrage of online criticism and in spite of the fact that most politicians on the committee appeared to support the act. Read more
December 16, 2011
PharmacyChecker.com
Two years ago, ABC News ran a segment (What Would You Do?) that showed Americans going out of their way to help strangers who could not afford their medication. Read more
December 13, 2011
Politico Pro
by Jennifer Martinez
A star lineup of tech luminaries is unleashing an offensive against two online piracy bills in Congress it says would give the government vast new power to censor content on the Web. Read more
December 5, 2011
The Buffington Post
by Dean Baker
The 1 percent and their employees are masters of word play. They turned the estate tax into the "death tax," life-saving health and environmental rules became "job-killing" regulations, and of course when it comes to taxes, the richest of the rich are now "job creators" who are supposed to be exempt from paying taxes. Read more