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    coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These...
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    American Civil Liberties Union, and Human Rights Watch also opposed the bill. The move to protest against SOPA and PIPA was initiated when Fight for the...
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    2012, widespread online protests against SOPA and PIPA were held that included an English Wikipedia blackout. These protests were initiated when Fight...
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  • The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two proposed draft laws that were being considered by the United States Congress. Their...
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  • The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-04. "Protests against SOPA and PIPA", Wikipedia, 2019-11-11, retrieved 2019-12-04 Sutter, John D...
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    President and Polish Parliament, were shut down by denial of service attacks that started 21 January, akin to protests against SOPA and PIPA that had happened...
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    formed following the protests against SOPA and PIPA. It had 30,000 members as of 2013, consisting of organizations, websites, and individuals. The Internet...
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    Bullying (category Harassment and bullying)
    kind of abuse that helped to fuel the protests against SOPA and PIPA in the United States in 2011 and 2012.[citation needed] In 2000, the UK Ministry of Defence...
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    David Levin, and David Post published an article called "Don't Break the Internet." There were several protests against SOPA and PIPA, including a Wikipedia...
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  • Media blackout, censorship of news related to a certain topic Protests against SOPA and PIPA, the 2012 web blackout Blackout (drug-related amnesia), loss...
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  • were extensively used as a graphic device in the January 2012 protests against SOPA and PIPA. A drawback of pixelization is that any differences between...
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    displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Protests against SOPA and PIPA – Series of protests in 2012 BGP hijacking – attack on Internet routing...
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    occurs in response to or in anticipation of events such as elections, protests, and riots. An example is the increased censorship due to the events of the...
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  • Google opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act by participating in protests against SOPA and PIPA because the company felt an existential threat to its business...
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  • Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality (category Internet-based and online protests)
    "joining" the protest. AT&T's participation was rejected by the principal organizers of the event. Internet activism Protests against SOPA and PIPA Velasco...
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    The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) have found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture...
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  • companies and their leaders had in pushing their agenda to the public, similar to the tactics used for the protests against SOPA and PIPA that were coordinated...
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  • Move Your Domain Day (category 2012 protests)
    protest Electronic Frontier Foundation Grassroots Internet activism List of organizations with official stances on the SOPA and PIPA Protests against...
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  • intent and knowledge to provide indecent materials to children. Protests against SOPA and PIPA, also undertaken to oppose a proposed law. Mitchell, Dan (February...
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  • OpenGov Foundation (category Political and economic research foundations in the United States)
    out of the 2011–2012 protests against SOPA and PIPA, creating a platform called Madison that allowed the public to directly and effectively engage alongside...
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  • 2011. January 18, 2012, was the Protests against SOPA and PIPA, a collective effort against the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act. Many websites...
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  • Professionals' Union opposes SOPA and PIPA Act". Davao Today. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2013. "Why we protest the Cybercrime Prevention Act...
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    Media Cloud (category Media analysis organizations and websites)
    online stories related to the COICA-SOPA-PIPA debate. The open source application was utilized for the text and link analysis portion of the research...
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    2012 Stop Online Piracy Act protests had proved counterproductive. Molly Wood of CNET wrote that "[i]f the SOPA/PIPA protests were the Web's moment of inspiring...
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  • Gross, Grant (Jan 18, 2012). "Groups Launch Campaign Against Lawmakers Supporting SOPA, PIPA". PCWorld. Archived from the original on 2013-03-16. Retrieved...
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    Internet Slowdown Day (category Internet-based and online protests)
    the most popular websites, including Reddit and Wikipedia, went "dark" to protest against SOPA and PIPA, two laws that would give authorities greater...
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  • beginning at 5:00 UTC (12:00 EST) to protest SOPA and PIPA. In the wake of this and many other online protests, Rep. Smith stated, "The House Judiciary...
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  • Russian Wikipedia blackout (category 2012 protests)
    Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills being debated in the U.S. Congress. The main reason for the protests was the wording...
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    of the United States Trade Representative Protect IP Act (PIPA) Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Tariff Trade in Services...
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    Aaron Swartz (category Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism)
    Infringement and Counterfeiting Act' ... was introduced on September 20th, 2010.... And [then] it began being called PIPA, and eventually SOPA. Aaron Swartz...
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