David Segal

CISPA is the new SOPA. Today marks the opening of a week of action in opposition to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States. It's up for a vote later this month.

CISPA demolishes existing...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is going to be reading names of censorship opponents from the floor of the Senate during his expected filibuster of the PROTECT IP Act. You can ask to have your name read -- and ask your senators to vote no -- by visiting StopCensorship.org.

A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill (PROTECT IP Act) will be introduced this week -- probably tomorrow -- by congress members Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Lamar Smith (R-TX) and others.

Our allies...

Three decades ago home taping was "killing music". Technology has advanced, but the entertainment industry is still in the Dark Ages: Under the guise of protecting "innovation" these Luddites are urging Congress to undermine the greatest engine of invention humanity has ever known: the Internet.

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The Tea Party Patriots came to Harvard and it was, well.... a little bit boring.

We've been taught to believe not only that Americans can't achieve consensus around key issues, but that we can't even tolerate each other enough to carry on a meaningful debate....

For all the energy it puts into obsessing over its bipartisanship fetish, the mainstream media seems to rarely notice that most righteous form of the phenomenon: Bipartisanship without compromise. Honest to God left-right solidarity on issues like war, bailouts, and censorship. In a show of such unity, Demand...

The government could shut down Facebook, and business interests want to stop copyright violations by capping how much Internet you get to use. Those are some of the takeaways from last week's hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet.

The business lobby,...

Until a few weeks ago, Brian McCarthy ran a website, channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized his domain name in late January. All

Governments across the globe recognize that the Internet is increasingly the life-blood of democracy -- that's why Egypt's regime has scrambled to shut down online communications in the face of vast pro-democracy protests.

But with tragically ironic timing -- or just a lot of guts -- American politicians have just...

Did you hear that the PATRIOT Act is up for re-authorization? No? Well, perhaps the US intelligence services can still keep a secret.

President George W. Bush signed the PATRIOT Act into law on October 26, 2001. Nearly a decade later, some of its the most noxious provisions have burrowed...

The right-wing U.S. Chamber of Commerce is living a lie: It does the bidding of big business's baddest boys, but maintains its standing by exploiting the good names of local chambers of commerce and myriad ma and pa shops on Main Streets across America.

You've heard about the gobs of...

As the Pentagon and Department of Justice scurry across the web chasing after WikiLeaks, corporate America is working to silence the whistles of potential informants in its own ranks -- undoubtedly with the Bank of America data dump on its mind.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has...

The Internet blacklist bill that we've been fighting since September is back.

We're defending the Internet against a multi-pronged attack by the big business lobby. The entertainment industry, garment manufacturers, and even big pharmaceutical companies -- who want to shut down websites that sell medicine to your grandparents...

With Aaron Swartz

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's attempt to throw next week's elections is cause for widespread alarm -- their agenda includes privatizing social security, undoing worker and consumer rights, blocking environmental protections, keeping banking regulations loose, and stymieing important health care reforms.

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The Greater Hudson Chamber of Commerce has had enough: It's so fed up with the shameless politicking that's being done in its name that it disaffiliated from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce earlier this month.

Will you help make sure it's the first of many...

David Segal and Aaron Swartz

An elitist, technocratic multi-millionaire who disdains dissent and made a fortune on Wall Street, Larry Summers typifies that which ails the Democratic Party. For the last two years he's served as director of President Obama's National Economic Council where he's been in charge of coordinating...

Remember that Internet blacklist bill we told you about a few days ago? More than 100,000 people have already signed our petition against it and Hollywood is feeling the heat! The bill was set for a vote in a supposedly gridlocked Congress just 10 short days...

By David Segal and Aaron Swartz

When it really matters to them, Congressmembers can come together -- with a panache and wry wit you didn't know they had. As banned books week gets underway, and President Obama admonishes oppressive regimes for their censorship of the Internet,...

We have more than enough puppets in Washington. Corporations and the extraordinarily wealthy have too much control over our government, and over our society -- and that power is only growing. We're at a watershed moment in American history: We need to stand up and fight back. And that's why...

The "NRA exemption" to the Disclose Act is undoubtedly a travesty, but in harping on it, we're missing the forest for the trees.

The much grander debacle is Democrats' failure to push for publicly funded elections, and their failure to put forth a Constitutional Amendment to stymie the flood of...