Tag: Politics

BREAKING: Harry Reid Delays PIPA Vote
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to postpone action on the Protect IP Act. In a statement, Reid said "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday'...
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Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence For Web Developer
The highest court in Iran has upheld a death sentence for a web developer for "being part of a 'network of decadence on the Internet.'" Specifically, the Iran's Supreme Court ma...
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SOPA: GOP Candidates All Agree
Last night's CNN debate in South Carolina found all four remaining GOP candidates in harmony on one issue at least. They all feel that SOPA is overreaching and needs to be rethough...
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Mitch McConnell On PIPA: Put It On Ice
Wednesday's internet-wide SOPA / PIPA protests, by many measures, were greatly successful. Google said that on that day alone, 4.5 million people...
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Exclusive: SOPA, From a Filmmaker’s Perspective
Jeff Day makes independent films. The budget for his 2010 production, "Unrequited" was just under $2 Millio...
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MegaUpload Shut Down By Feds
MegaUpload, one of the world’s most popular file sharing sites, has been shut down by the federal government. Washington has released a press release today saying that they hav...
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SOPA and PIPA Are Bad For YOU – The Simple Reason Why
Clay Shirky is an author and an adjunct professor in New York University’s graduate Inte...
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Apple Settles Lawsuit Over Stolen MacBook, iPod Touch
Whenever we buy something new there's always a little bit of paranoia about it. What if your new car gets totalled on the way home from the lot? What if one of those new earrings f...
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Motherlode of Material On Romney Hits Web
A 200-page file on Mitt Romney has been released online. The file is comprehensive in its coverage of Romney's political positions - as of 2008 anyway - on a wide variety of topics...
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eBay & Amazon Tussle Over Online Sales Tax – Again
The 7th Annual State of the Net Conference commenced today featuring leading Internet policy gurus and discussion panels focusing on privacy/security issues, telecommunications reg...
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Ron Paul May Have a Troll
A video, supposedly about Jon Huntsman, has been making the rounds. Posted on YouTube by someone with the user name "NHLiberty4Paul" on January 4, 2012, the amateurish compilation...
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Another Republican Senator Backs Away From PIPA Sponsorship
When all of this anti-SOPA smoke clears, it appears as if the only government official who will be left standing on the side of the stop piracy acts will be Lamar "SOPA Will Never...
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SOPA: Vimeo Vid Explains SOPA/PIPA Simply
Online video sharing site Vimeo has created a very simple walk-through of SOPA/PIPA and the real story of how they work and what dangers they con...
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MPAA Finds Internet Blackouts To Be “Irresponsible”
Today is the day where many popular sites are blacking out in an effort to protest the anti-piracy bills that certain members of the government are so blindly trying to force down...
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SOPA Blackout: Reddit Co-Founder Discusses Blackout
Reddit co-counder Alexis Ohanion dropped by CNN's newsroom today to discuss his website's blackout in opposition to SOPA/PIPA. In the discus...
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