{"id":1285,"date":"2011-12-14T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/14\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:55","slug":"setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Record Straight on SOPA: Some Evidence-Based Analysis | Electronic Frontier Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/818884396\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some-evidence-based-analysis-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/818884396\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some-evidence-based-analysis-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/DEsoWpAzg46CFcOthkkv5jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Ever since the Internet has fought back against the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), top supporters of the dangerous blacklist legislation have tried to mask its full consequences by misconstruing criticism and distorting the opposition\u2019s position.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/12\/setting-record-straight-sopa-some-evidence-based-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via eff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesEver since the Internet has fought back against the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), top supporters of the dangerous blacklist legislation have tried to mask its full consequences by misconstruing criticism and distorting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1351,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/this-week-in-internet-censorship-sopa-uae\/","url_meta":{"origin":1285,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Internet Censorship: SOPA, UAE Bloggers on Hunger Strike, Chilean Sites Attacked | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesInternational Community Rallies Against SOPAVia eff.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1052,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/04\/12\/cispa-is-sopa-20-petition-to-stop-it-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1285,"position":1},"title":"CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it &#8211; Boing Boing","author":"aslam","date":"April 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesCISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year.Via boingboing.net","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1144,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/24\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1285,"position":2},"title":"If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA &#8211; Forbes","author":"aslam","date":"January 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement are just as pernicious as anything we saw in SOPA. 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