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PHL bloggers group: SOPA, PIPA to hurt promotion of human rights – GMA News

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SOPA: Feds go after Megaupload as Congress reviews anti-piracy bills – Alaska Dispatch

Alaska News & Features It was almost as if the thrums of digital artillery could be felt across millions of keyboards. As some of the internet’s biggest power players, including Google and Wikipedia, protested two fast-tracked anti-piracy bills going through Congress, the US Justice Department launched an attack on one of the web’s biggest [...]

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LI lawmakers turn against SOPA, PIPA – Newsday

Email Print Aa Tweet Originally published: January 21, 2012 6:46 PM Updated: January 21, 2012 8:49 PM By TOM BRUNE  tom.brune@newsday.com Photo credit: Getty Images | A laptop displays Wikipedia‘s front page showing a [...]

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Why I’m fighting SOPA: We need a solution, but a better solution – GigaOm

The current SOPA legislation, which is being debated everywhere from Capitol Hill to the Hollywood Hills, is not the answer that creative rights holders — nor advocates of the DMCA and other free internet policy proponents — are seeking. Instead, we need to find a more elegant middle ground, with policy that encourages online creativity and [...]

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From SOPA to speech: Seven tech trends to monitor – O’Reilly Radar

Here’s what’s coming for 2012, starting with the bad. SOPA and PIPA Although SOPA has had a setback in the House, it would be a bad mistake to assume that this story is at an end, or that it will end any time soon. And its evil twin, PIPA, still rumbles along in the Senate. [...]

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The Internet blackout: How will it effect SOPA and PIPA? – Entertainment Weekly

Image Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images UPDATE: Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ben Quayle, and other sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) have withdrawn their sponsorship of their controversial bills. PIPA’s Rubio announced his move on his Facebook page, writing, “As a senator from Florida, a state with a [...]

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Internet blackout stirs debate – Park Record

The Park Record Like the rest of the world, Park City was in the dark as websites challenged political leaders [...]

The Circuit: Web sites go on strike, LightSquared, Yang splits from Yahoo – Washington Post (blog)

LEADING THE DAY: A group of technology companies — including Google, Wikipedia and Reddit — are participating in protests against [...]

Hollywood unions blast Google and urge Senate support for PIPA – Los Angeles Times

As political support for the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills is waning in Washington, unions representing Hollywood [...]

Tech Check: The Web blacks out for SOPA, Apple in the classroom – CNN

(CNN) — On this week’s Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg explain the internet blackout that [...]

SOPA bill shelved after global protests from Google, Wikipedia and others – Washington Post

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Google’s Crawl Rate Slowed for SOPA; Bing Sped Up [VIDEO] – Mashable

Search giant Google joined in the SOPA protest Wednesday, not just with its blacked-out Doodle, but by agreeing to slow [...]