Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, But Will The Patriot Act Live On?
The Patriot Act is (again) up for renewal this month. Now remember, it was initially enacted as a supposedly-temporary measure in the wake of 9-11, but more and more of it keeps getting made permanent...
View ArticleMore Censorship Than China: Internet Blacklist Bill is Back and Even Worse...
The Internet Blacklist Bill is back -- and even worse than before. After it was introduced last year, over 300,000 Demand Progress members contacted Congress to protest COICA, leading the bill to be...
View ArticlePROTECT IP is protecting...who?
These past couple weeks have been a strange and unsettling time in the ever-more-murky world of copyright and intellectual property. The most concerning development is the proposed PROTECT IP act, the...
View ArticleSneaking the PATRIOT Act through
This week, with so much at stake for our civil liberties, Demand Progress is calling on Senate Leadership to listen to more than 80,000 of our members who demand reform of the Patriot Act.This Friday...
View ArticleUrge Congress To Reject The PROTECT IP Act
Does the acronym PIPA mean anything to you? Well, it should. It represents the PROTECT IP Act, otherwise known as the Internet Blacklist Bill. This act, currently being considered by Congress, would...
View ArticleJail Time for Posting YouTube Videos
First, the big business lobbyists want to create an Internet Blacklist through the Protect IP Act. Now they introduced the Ten Strikes Bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content– such as...
View ArticleBEAT IT, S.978!
Demand Progress issued a release about S. 978, the "Ten Strikes" Act a few weeks ago. When, within days, hundreds of people were spreading the word about why it is so dangerous, we took the opportunity...
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