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Google’s Protest Against the Proposed Stop Online Piracy Act / Protect IP Act

(Eugene Volokh) Today’s U.S. Google query page has the name blacked out, and a line under the search bar that says, “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!.” I suspect that it makes this among the most widely seen political ads/editorials/statements in American history, at least setting aside statements carried in standard mainstream media programming on [...]
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Twitter’s CEO and Co-Founders speak out against SOPA

Technology : The Next Web Blog (last year)

In what has become a day of massive Internet activism against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the biggest names on the web are speaking out against the two proposed acts that could cause issues for s... Read Post

Tumblr Takes Fight Against SOPA Up A Notch, ‘Censors’ User Dashboards

Technology : TechCrunch (2 years ago)

Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP Act, is in the Senate). In a misguided attempt to curb piracy on the web, the... Read Post

Tumblr, Reddit, and Mozilla Use Black Bar to Protest Piracy Law

Technology : Inc. Technology (2 years ago)

Popular online services Tumblr, Reddit and Mozilla (creator of the Firefox browser) have come out in black against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act now making its way through Congress. It’s part of a no-holds-barred campaign to stop... Read Post


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