Internet Blackout

Censorship And SOPA: A Family Dinner Table Talk

The Huffington Post | Sarah H. Lee | Posted 01.27.2012

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This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: If you were anywhere on the Internet this past Wednesday, you might...

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Beyond SOPA: A New Birth of Internet Freedom

Patrick Ruffini | Posted 03.21.2012

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Patrick Ruffini

For libertarians, there is new hope in the power of a self-organizing and self-regulating Internet to stand up for itself against invasive governments and powerful legacy industries that seek to manage our options as consumers.

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Anti-Piracy Bill Causes Consternation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.19.2012

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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), have ignited widespread online protests--yet there is consid...

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Key Supporters Abandon Anti-Piracy Legislation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.18.2012

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Joining other lawmakers, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced Wednesday that he would no longer support the Protect IP Act, amid widespread online prot...

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How To Access Wikipedia During The Blackout

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 01.18.2012

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If you've attempted to visit one of the 3.8 million articles in the English-language version of Wikipedia today, then you already know that the site h...

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Zach Carter

Key Senator Abandons The Protect IP Ship

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With thousands of websites large and small blacked out Wednesday in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a House bill, and it...

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Why We Go Black

Timothy Karr | Posted 03.19.2012

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Timothy Karr

Today's nationwide protest of Internet blacklist legislation is part of a brewing movement to keep control over the Internet out of the hands of corporations and governments. It's a struggle that puts Internet users before information gatekeepers.

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The Battle for Tripoli's Internet

Jim Cowie | Posted 08.21.2011

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Jim Cowie

Renesys is still piecing together the data that can confirm or deny much of what was reported through the course of the day Sunday in Libya, but one thing is clear: something very strange was going on with Tripoli residents' Internet access.

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Syrian Internet Shutdown

Jim Cowie | Posted 08.03.2011

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Jim Cowie

Starting at 3:35 Coordinated Universal Time today, we observed that approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet.

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What Libya Learned From Egypt

Jim Cowie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Cowie

Someone in Libya is still watching YouTube, even though the rest of the country is dark.

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U.S. Politicizes Internet

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Weller

Just as in France, people in the US are learning that the freedom of the Net depends on groups they knew little of or didn't even know existed.

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