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SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills.
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Quote:WASHINGTON — Internet protests on Wednesday quickly cut into Congressional support for anti-Web piracy measures as lawmakers abandoned and rethought their backing for legislation that pitted new media interests against some of the most powerful old-line commercial interests in Washington.
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A freshman senator, Marco Rubio of Florida, a rising Republican star, was first out of the starting gate Wednesday morning with his announcement that he would no longer back anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who heads the campaign operation for his party, quickly followed suit and urged Congress take more time to study the measure that had been set for a test vote next week.

Mr. Cornyn posted on his Facebook page that it was “better to get this done right rather than fast and wrong. Stealing content is theft, plain and simple, but concerns about unintended damage to the Internet and innovation in the tech sector require a more thoughtful balance, which will take more time.”

Their decisions came after some Web pages were shut down Wednesday to protest two separate bills, the Stop On-line Piracy Act in the House, written by Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, drafted by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Members of Congress, many of whom are grappling with the issues posed by the explosion in new media and social Web sites, appeared caught off guard by the backlash to what had been a relatively obscure piece of legislation to many of them. The Internet sensibility of the Senate was represented a few years ago in remarks by the late Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, who called the Internet “not a big truck” but a “series of tubes” — an observation enshrined in the Net Hall of Shame.

The backlash to the pending legislation had caused the online encyclopedia Wikipedia to go dark. Google’s home page had a black banner across its home page that leads to pointed information blasting the bills.

Such new-media lobbying was having an impact.

“As a senator from Florida, a state with a large presence of artists, creators and businesses connected to the creation of intellectual property, I have a strong interest in stopping online piracy that costs ,Florida jobs,” Mr. Rubio wrote on his Facebook page. “However, we must do this while simultaneously promoting an open, dynamic Internet environment that is ripe for innovation and promotes new technologies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/techno....html?_r=1
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SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-18-2012, 08:59 AM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-18-2012, 09:03 AM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-18-2012, 04:11 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-18-2012, 04:12 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-18-2012, 04:22 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-18-2012, 04:38 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by TheRealVille - 01-18-2012, 04:43 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-18-2012, 04:48 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-18-2012, 04:54 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-18-2012, 07:21 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-19-2012, 04:25 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-22-2012, 01:22 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-22-2012, 04:21 PM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by LWC - 01-23-2012, 12:30 AM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-23-2012, 09:06 AM
SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. - by nky - 01-23-2012, 04:12 PM

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