Sopa articles

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  Internet advocates say the TPP is the biggest threat yet to open web

  By Russell Brandom on May 14, 2013 12:00 pm + 60 comments

  Tomorrow in Lima, representatives from 11 countries are gathering to hammer out something called the Continue reading…

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  SOPA author Lamar Smith wants congressional guidelines to replace peer review for federal science research

  By Tim Carmody on April 29, 2013 01:42 pm + 49 comments

  Texas congressman Lamar Smith, SOPA author and new chair of the US House of Representatives' Continue reading…

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  Taking gun control to the tweets: can tech mogul Ron Conway use social media to oust 45 senators?

  By Adrianne Jeffries on April 19, 2013 01:04 pm + 432 comments

  The 45 senators who blocked a gun control amendment despite its 90-plus percent approval rating may Continue reading…

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  Former senator Chris Dodd made $2.4 million as MPAA head in 2011

  By Adi Robertson on March 2, 2013 06:20 pm + 64 comments

  The MPAA has made no bones about its tight relationship with Congress, and recent numbers reveal Continue reading…

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  Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century

  By Tim Carmody on January 22, 2013 12:30 pm + 79 comments

  I met Aaron Swartz in Cambridge shortly after he’d been indicted for downloading lots of JSTOR Continue reading…

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  How a phone call made Aaron Swartz join the fight against SOPA

  By Aaron Souppouris on January 21, 2013 06:01 am + 26 comments

  On the one-year anniversary of the international SOPA blackout, BuzzFeed published an excerpt from H Continue reading…

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  Aaron Swartz memorial evokes strong emotions and political urgency

  By Tim Carmody on January 19, 2013 09:45 pm + 115 comments

  Aaron Swartz's family funeral was held this week in Chicago, but on Saturday, New York hosted a Continue reading…

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  Could the next Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram ever debut at CES?

  By Adrianne Jeffries on January 8, 2013 06:00 am + 21 comments

  "Software is eating the world," the legendary Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen said in his Continue reading…

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  The Year in Review: the biggest stories of 2012

  By Verge Staff on December 31, 2012 12:39 pm + 102 comments

  2012, you’ve kept us busy. Facebook went public, Apple had new leadership for the first time in Continue reading…

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  Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate change skeptic, and Congress' next science boss

  By T.C. Sottek on December 5, 2012 01:00 pm + 420 comments

  You're looking at a man who will soon sit in a powerful chair. His name is Representative Lamar Continue reading…