Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight Executive Director Ellen Miller responds to this guest post by Mike Godwin: There is little in Mike Godwin's response that we disagree with. As he writes, the debate over SOPA and PIPA was changed not by "politics as usual" or a late infusion of interest group lobbying cash, "but the participation of the online community, including Wikipedia, Reddit, and others, to let policymakers know about their unhappiness with the direction and process of the legislation." Amen to that. Our blogger, Lee Drutman, did not argue that this was not grassroots or that it was solely organized by Google or other tech lobbies.