- A day after a widespread Internet protest, key opponents of SOPA and PIPA warned Thursday that the controversial online piracy bills are not dead yet and called for lawmakers to slow down and start over. (Los Angeles Times)
- We called Issas office immediately after seeing news of the PIPA delay on Twitter, and they sounded busy. (YAHOO!)
- Senate and House leaders announced Friday they are postponing work on two controversial anti-piracy bills in the wake of large online protests that spurred several congressmen to rethink the legislation. (CBS News)
- In stats released last night, Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, said it reached 40 million people during Wednesdays blackout, who in turn sent 360,000 emails to their members of Congress about SOPA and PIPA. (PC Magazine)
- Update, 11:16 a.m.: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), author of the Stop Online Privacy Act, said on Friday that he is postponing consideration of the bill in response to concerns from critics who said the bill could lead to censorship. (Washington Post)
- Opponents of two controversial Internet control laws, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) scored a partial gain Friday when a vote on PIPA was suddenly scrubbed. (International Business Times)
- Alexanders action came after more than 115,000 sites participated in Wednesdays protest and Congressional support for the act — and its Senate doppelganger, PIPA — began to deteriorate. (MTV)
- SOPA? Oh joy - another four-letter tech acronym to add to the teetering pile Eight letters actually: theres also PIPA. They sound like twins. (Silicon.com)
- In a huge victory for progressive online organizing, the Senate Dem leadership announced this morning that it was indefinitely postponing votes on the PIPA bill — the companion to SOPA — in the wake of massive protests. (Washington Post)
Friday, January 20, 2012
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