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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.

I try to avoid delving into the realm of politics here at WolfheadOnline but there is a very important issue that affects almost everyone here in America and in.

by Michael H. Berkens Today is of course the day that a lot of thousands of sites have blacked themselves out in protect of the SOPA bill, including mainstream sites like Wikipedia.org, WordPress.org, and some inside the domain industry like Tucows.com

The internet filled with snark on Wednesday, as a slew of websites went dark to protest anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Not to be outdone by journalists and teenagers, one supporter of the legislation also sounded off. "After Wikipedia blackrout[sic],

The internet filled with snark on Wednesday, as a slew of websites went dark to protest anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Not to be outdone by journalists and teenagers, one supporter of the legislation also sounded off. "After Wikipedia blackrout[sic],

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.

By Elizabeth Flock As Wikipedia goes dark today in protest of the SOPA and PIPA bills, The Washington Post, along with the Guardian and NPR, has offered a single-day Band-Aid for the missing encyclopedia: #altwiki. The blacked-out Wikipedia site (AP)

Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, announced Wednesday he was withdrawing as a co-sponsor of PIPA, and Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, called on Congress to take more time to work on the bills. “Better to get this done right rather

Game developer Mark Kern has launched a new gaming organization to battle legislation like SOPA and PIPA. With over 7000 Websites partaking in blackouts or some type of action today against upcoming bills like SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA

The internet filled with snark on Wednesday, as a slew of websites went dark to protest anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Not to be outdone by journalists and teenagers, one supporter of the legislation also sounded off. "After Wikipedia blackrout[sic],

Work on SOPA was temporarily suspended after President Barak Obama spoke out against the bill's wording, although markup on the proposed legislation will resume in February. The Senate's PIPA bill is scheduled for a vote on January 24.

To help raise awareness against SOPA and PIPA and to get the gaming community to petition against the ESA's support of the two bills that would potentially destroy the internet. “The VGVN and the ESA claim to represent gamers and developers,

Twelve tech giants, including Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, delivered a letter of protest to the sponsors of the SOPA and PIPA legislation, calling the bill dangerous to American innovation and cybersecurity, but also

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Twelve tech giants, including Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, delivered a letter of protest to the sponsors of the SOPA and PIPA legislation, calling the bill dangerous to American innovation and cybersecurity, but also

Organizers are trying to exceed the 540208 signatures needed to force a recall election.

Russ Feingold will run against Walker if a recall election is certified. In fact, Feingold seems to be a crowd favorite. Carolyn Miller, an elementary school teacher, shows me a slip of paper with Feingold's contact information.

Scott Walker in a recall race. Falk made the announcement to her supporters with an online video message. "Faced with an all-out assault on all that matters to us, we reacted not with despair, not with anger, but with hope," Falk said in the video.

Scott Walker in a recall race. Falk made the announcement to her supporters with an online video message. "Faced with an all-out assault on all that matters to us, we reacted not with despair, not with anger, but with hope," Falk said in the video.

Wisconsin Moves Forward with Walker Recall. By Elizabeth DiNovella, January 17, 2012. A few hundred Wisconsinites braved the frigid cold to witness history in the making this afternoon, as more than one million signatures asking for the