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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 27, 2012

  The antipiracy legislation of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) was the most closely followed news topic last week among Americans ages 18 to 29, per a newly released Pew Research Center poll. The controversial, vaguely written, power-grabbing congressional bills have been halted in their tracks, following a titanic outcry [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 18, 2012

  They’re dropping like flies… support for the poorly written, oppressive anti-piracy bills is going into “crash and burn” mode among members of Congress as the outrage of millions of Americans becomes louder and angrier. We are America, hear us roar, Congress. At this point, Florida’s Medusa-haired Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Pres. Obama’s [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 18, 2012

Google’s homepage today, in support of the Internet blackout and protest against Congress’s so-called anti-piracy bills:   More from Google: Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate [...]

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