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Open Congress: Call the Senate: Tell them to Vote NO on Internet Censorship
The bill to give corporations and the government new powers to block websites without having to seek court approval ...
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Open Congress: House Judiciary Committee Makes SOPA Hearing a SOPA Lovefest
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill that ...
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Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time: SOPA Fundraisers
Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Chris Dodd set off a firestorm of criticism last week when he suggested that ...
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Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time: It’s North versus South (California) in SOPA debate
Since the bills’ introduction in late October, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (H.R. 3261) and its Senate counterpart the ...
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Open Congress: SOPA Mark-up Delayed as Support Continues to Crumble
(See update below…) After day one of the House Judiciary Committee’s mark-up of the Stop Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. SOPA), ...
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Sunlight Foundation Tumblr: Watching ‘wtf Wikipedia’ as SOPA/PIPA blackout begins While...
Watching ‘wtf Wikipedia’ as SOPA/PIPA blackout begins While SOPA and PIPA are no laughing matter (join the strike), the reaction ...
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Open Congress: SOPA/PIPA Dead ...For Now.
Following a day of unprecedented online protest, the web censorship bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA, have officially been tabled. “In ...
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Open Congress: Rep. Ryan (R-WI) Opposes #SOPA Net Censorship Bill
Todays’ biggest news arrived this morning with announcement by influential Republican House Rep. Paul Ryan [R, WI-01, pictured here] that he ...
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Open Congress: Anti-Web Censorship Bill Protest from Our Perspective at OC
Last month’s flurry of Stop-PIPA & Stop-SOPA online protests were an apex of activity for OpenCongress. Not only was January ...
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Sunlight Foundation Tumblr: kateoplis: Politico: Why SOPA is on the Congressional...
kateoplis: Politico: Why SOPA is on the Congressional agenda Hollywood’s in a showdown over its TV shows, movies and music ...
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A Note About SOPA/PIPA
Since you’re reading this, it seems safe to say that you know we haven’t taken our sites dark today. Like ...
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Open Congress: House Committee to Mark-Up SOPA Tomorrow
The notorious internet censorship bill known as SOPA is going to mark-up in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and ...
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Open Congress: Help Us Whip #SOPA
Ahead of next week’s House Judiciary Committee mark-up of the Stop Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. SOPA) we’re organizing a distributed ...
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Open Congress: Net Censorship Bills On Top of the Agenda for After the Holidays
As grassroots opposition to the internet censorship bills known as SOPA and PIPA continues to build, the entertainment industry and ...
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2Day in #OpenGov 1/11/2012
Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is a look at Wednesday's transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related ...
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Ellen Miller responds
Sunlight Executive Director Ellen Miller responds to this guest post by Mike Godwin: There is little in Mike Godwin's response ...
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Open Congress: Jan. 24th: Our Best Chance to Kill SOPA
The internet censorship bills that have been winding their ways through Congress are about to reach a key, make-or-break moment. ...
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How SOPA and PIPA did and didn’t change how Washington lobbying works
The political scientist E.E. Schattschneider once called politics “the mobilization of bias.” By this, he meant something both simple and ...
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Open Congress: With SOPA Shelved, Congress Readies its Next Attack on the Internet
One of the things that became clear in Congress’ push to pass Hollywood’s web censorship bills is that powerful corporations ...
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Sunlight Foundation Tumblr: joshsternberg: firthofforth: barthel: themattsmith: the-mtblo...
joshsternberg: firthofforth: barthel: themattsmith: the-mtblog: newsweek: Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours. This also ...