Save the Internet Blog
February 7, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Before the Web blacked out to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act PIPA) — the Internet-censorship bills that faced massive opposition online — there was another SOPA blackout.
February 3, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Arizona State University might need to change its name to Censorship U after deciding to block students’ access to popular petition site Change.org.
January 31, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Remember Carrier IQ, the company that makes the secret spying software that’s installed on more than 140 million phones? You know, the software that can record our most sensitive personal data?
January 24, 2012
Posted by Joel Kelsey
People inside the D.C. bubble often tell stories about lavish fundraisers and the use of campaign cash to shore up votes in Congress. Conspiracy theories about who uses their PAC money, or direct contributions, to bend the ear of powerful committee chairmen and party leaders circulate throughout the capital faster than the Metro.
January 24, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Under the leadership of our friends at New Mexico’s Media Literacy Project, ninth graders Jack Folkner, Martin Jencka and Jay Jewell-Roth created a video about the recently shelved Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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January 19, 2012
Posted by Timothy Karr
Wikipedia and Google blacked out? Redditers in an uproar? Thousands of geeks abandoning their cubicles to take to the streets?
What's happening here?
January 17, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Tomorrow you might be wondering who turned
out the lights. Don’t worry — it will simply be one of the biggest days in the
history of the open Internet.
January 12, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
Earlier this week we pointed to a Media Matters for America study showing that most of the major networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC and NBC — have failed to cover opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
January 12, 2012
Posted by Amy Kroin
The first-ever study on mobile donors found that charitable donations made via cellphones have jumped in recent years. The report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Pew Research Center analyzed the “Text to Haiti” campaign that followed the devastating 2010 earthquake.
