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An Update From The Internet — Before Crony Capitalism Shuts It Down

By David Segal on November 15, 2011

Demand Progress delivered 500k signatures in opposition to the Internet Blacklist Bill today — at a press conference alongside Congresmembers Zoe Lofgren and Darrell Issa.  (That’s our David Moon to the left of the podium.)The legislation gets heard tomorrow, and there’s an unprecedented avalanche of opposition snowballing among online advocacy groups tech companies, and rank-and-file [...]

Posted in Featured | Tagged Darrell Issa, Demand Progress, Internet Blacklist, SOPA, Zoe Lofgren | Leave a response

Celebrate The World Wide Web’s 20th Birthday — Ask Your Lawmakers To Oppose The Internet

By David Segal on August 9, 2011

It was twenty years ago this week that Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, put the world’s first website online. It announced his new creation: the World Wide Web. Last year while urging Internet users to sign Demand Progress’s petition against the Internet Blacklist Bill, Berners-Lee wrote this about the principles that underpin his project: [...]

Posted in Business & Tech, National News, News | Tagged Demand Progress, Department of Justice, Internet Blacklist Bill, PIPA, Piracy, PROTECT IP Act, Ron Wyden, SOPA | Leave a response

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