{"id":1287,"date":"2011-12-14T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/14\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:55","slug":"sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPA, the NDAA, and Patent-Trolling: Why Americans Need a Civil Liberties Caucus &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/818859016\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans-need-a-civil-liberties-caucus-forbes\" 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\/818859016\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans-need-a-civil-liberties-caucus-forbes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/eqUks6vver-9CN4KrhwWYDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Nearly every elected official in Congress voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill placing domestic terrorism investigations into the hands of the US Military. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2011\/12\/10\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans-need-a-civil-liberties-caucus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Nearly every elected official in Congress voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill placing domestic terrorism investigations into the hands of the US Military. \u00a0Via forbes.com<\/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-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1268,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/16\/obama-a-disaster-for-civil-liberties\/","url_meta":{"origin":1287,"position":0},"title":"Obama: A disaster for civil liberties","author":"aslam","date":"December 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. 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