SOPA news round-up
I’ve avoided posting something about the impending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and its senatorial brother PIPA, because I frankly have no idea where to start on this horrendous piece of legislation....
View ArticleToday is Move Your Domain Day
It looks like domain registrar Go Daddy has stepped in it yet again. In all the hubbub about SOPA it came out that not Go Daddy, one of the largest domain registrars around, supported the legislation....
View ArticleSOPA loses supporters (kinda)
A quick update on where SOPA stands coming into 2012: Go Daddy has now gone from supporting SOPA, to not supporting it, to opposing it following a well publicized boycott. Given the fact that they...
View ArticleHopefully one of the last SOPA updates you’ll have to endure
EDIT: and the legislation has been shelved. — I don’t know about you but I’m getting a little tired of hearing about SOPA. Luckily it seems as if legislators have realized how horrible the bill is, or...
View ArticleInternet Wars: U.S. DoJ shuts down Megaupload. Hacktivists strike back
A day after thousands of sites went down in protest to SOPA, the U.S Department of Justice has decided to shut down MegaUpload, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Charges include...
View ArticleEFF answers Reddit’s questions
If you wander over to Reddit you can read an AMA (ask me anything) with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s activism team. It’s unfortunately over but they’ve proposed holding another one in a few...
View ArticleClicktivism breakdown: going dark against SOPA
Clicktivist Breakdown is an ongoing series dissecting online campaigns piece by piece to discover the anatomy of successful digital engagement. We’ve had a few weeks to let the aftermath of the SOPA...
View ArticleStop cyber-spying week
SOPA may have come and gone but that doesn’t mean that the government has given up on trying to exert control over the Internet. Currently the US House is trying to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing...
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