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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

Wednesday is the official day of protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill and a growing number of Web sites will participate. But gaming site RedstoneHost couldn't wait. It started the party by "blacking out" its Web page Tuesday and

Vox Media is officially opposed to SOPA. The bill as drafted is overly broad, vaguely worded, and gives rise to a number of significant concerns: Serious constitutional issues in regards to due process and seizure of property.

Vox Media is officially opposed to SOPA. The bill as drafted is overly broad, vaguely worded, and gives rise to a number of significant concerns: Serious constitutional issues in regards to due process and seizure of property.

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The White House just released a statement commenting on the pending SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in congress. While the Obama Administration sides with the opposition by saying that free-speech should be protected,

On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. I've been talking to Mark and his team for about a month about this and I'm incredibly proud of him for taking a stand on this issue. I've been a supporter of Mark's for many years and his

Before you get too excited, remember that the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the extremely similar Senate version of SOPA, is still steaming forward, and has to be stopped. But you can get a little excited, as this is pretty goddamned great news.

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is

White House rejects SOPA and PIPA. By Cory Doctorow at 7:27 pm Saturday, Jan 14. Ranking members of the Obama administration have published a memo condemning the approach taken in SOPA and PIPA, the punishing, pending

And don't think you can spend the workday looking at #snowmageddon pictures on Reddit or nitpicking errors on Wikipedia forums. Those sites along with dozens of others are participating in an Internet blackout Wednesday to protest the Stop Online

scheduled a blackout on Jan 18th and urged others to do so as well. Other websites that came on board were Tucows, the Cheezburger network and there was even talk about a Wikipedia blackout (no official confirmation). Neither Google nor Facebook showed

Wikipedia joins blackout. A community vote is still being taken about what will happen but at the moment the plan is to redirect to an "education" site. The decision to shelve the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was announced on Saturday morning by

Looks like Wikipedia will protest the proposed anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA by disappearing for 24 hours: “The emerging consensus of the community seems to be for a global blackout of English Wikipedia,” Jimmy

The news comes after a lengthy debate as to the particulars of such a grand gesture — whether or not the site should participate at all, which versions of the site would be affected, and how exactly the blackout would go down