Today we speak with award-winning journalist Tara Kangarlou about her new film, “Beyond the Electronic Curtain,” and the issue of Internet censorship in Iran. “Beyond the Electronic Curtain” documents the effects of unrelenting censorship on Iranian ...
Zócalo Public Square :: Happy Internet Freedom Day
Because SOPA's goal was to reduce piracy of television shows and movies, cable companies spent millions in D.C. lobbying for the bill. Their television channels, however, provided almost no coverage. A few weeks before the blackout, long ...
After a year in the grave, can SOPA and Protect IP return?
It was one year ago today that an unprecedented outcry against the Stop Online Piracy Act proved to Washington officialdom that sufficiently irritated Internet users are a potent political force. After Wikipedia, Google, Craigslist and other major ...
U.S. Congress employees are just like us! Report of illegal downloads at work ...
... of Representatives have been illegally downloading copyrighted material including television episodes and movies at work for some time, despite the representatives themselves pushing anti-piracy legislations such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
This Is Why SOPA Failed
As [the blog] TorrentFreak noted in a 2011 blogpost, Congress was illegally downloading television shows and self-help books around the same time some members were drafting Sopa. You remember SOPA. It stood for the Stop Online Piracy Act. Like The ...
Activists celebrate SOPA blackout anniversary
January 18 marks the one-year anniversary of the Internet protests that killed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which Internet activists ...
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