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| Nov 28, 2012 | Rep. Issa Crowdsourcing Discussion Of Two Year Embargo On Internet Regulations | We’ve been hearing rumors of this for a few weeks, but Rep. Darrell Issa has released a draft version of his Internet American Moratorium Act (there’s a joke in that name for you Reddit folks…) and appropriately (see previous parenthetical)... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Rep. Darrell Issa introduces a ‘don’t mess with the Internet for two years’ bill | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Yet, when it com... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Rep. Darrell Issa introduces a ‘don’t mess with the Internet for two years’ bill | If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Yet, when it comes to the Internet, there are plenty of politicians who believe something is broken.
But many active Internet users — especially those that frequent community news sharing site Reddit — whole... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Making Government Suck Less | Editor’s note: U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R) has represented California’s 49th Congressional District in the House of Representatives since 2001. Follow him on Twitter @DarrellIssa.
On June 11, 2012, I went all in on open. That day, I traveled... |
| Jul 9, 2012 | Congressman Darrell Issa Signs Declaration Of Internet Freedom | Representative Darrell Issa (CA-49) signed the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a broad online document that aims to keep the internet free and open. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is the first electe... |
| Jun 11, 2012 | Congressman Issa Launches Direct Democracy Technology Lab, Seeks Developers | “We can draft anything, but will we go to the masses?” said Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), creator of Congress’s little-known online crowdsourcing legislative platform, Project Madison. Today, at the open-government forum, the Personal De... |
| May 15, 2012 | Darrell Issa Puts Old Leaked TPP IP Text Up For Discussion | We’ve written a few times now about Rep. Darrell Issa, and the Madison platform his office has set up to allow for crowdsourcing opinion on legislation and other government documents. He originally used it for his OPEN Act, but then later p... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Rep. Darrell Issa opens up secretive intellectual property “treaty”, ACTA, to the public | While Americans were busy fighting the SOPA and PIPA bills at home, nations around the globe, including the United States, were signing on to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which many in the world of technology feel is as ba... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Darrell Issa Posts Text Of 'Unconstitutional' ACTA For Open Feedback; Something USTR Never Did | We’ve been really impressed (though we can see where it needs improvements in its next version) with the “Madison” platform that Rep. Darrell Issa put up to allow for open feedback and comments concerning the OPEN Act. And it appears he’s n... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | Congress Shelves SOPA After President Obama’s Involvement | Detractors of the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) may have reason to celebrate, albeit momentarily. According to Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-Rep.), an opponent of the bills, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has assure... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Congressman uses gaming forum to help gather anti-SOPA support | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Congressman Jared Polis made an impromptu appearance on the official forum for online game League of Legends yesterday, to help gather ... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Senator Leahy Hopes To Rush Through PIPA By Promising To Study DNS Blocking… Later?!? | As we noted yesterday, staffers in both the House and the Senate quietly started floating the idea that they would drop the DNS provisions in the bill… in the hopes that maybe it would calm down the growing unrest about SOPA/PIPA. Senator L... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Congressman uses gaming forum to help gather anti-SOPA support | Congressman Jared Polis made an impromptu appearance on the official forum for online game League of Legends yesterday, to help gather further support in the movement against the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA).
Congressman Polis, Democrati... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Congressman Fears That SOPA May Kill His “League of Legends” Addiction | It’s no secret that congressman Jared Polis is not a fan of SOPA.
He is among the representatives who support the SOPA alternative #OPEN.
But, little known is the fact that one of the reasons for Rep. Polis to oppose SOPA is the threat it p... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | Unfortunate: 'Open' Advocate Darrell Issa Sponsoring Bill That Will Close Off Open Access To Gov't Funded Research | For years, we’ve pointed out the ridiculousness of various attempts to lock up federally funded research. If anything, it would seem that research that is federally funded should be required to be open to the public. After all, the public p... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials’ struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | SOPA Markup Day 1: We Don't Understand This Bill, It Might Do Terrible Things, But Dammit, We're Passing It Now | So, if you weren’t paying attention, yesterday was a marathon session of SOPA amendments… It ran for 11.5 hours, with just one tiny break, and it looks like they didn’t even get through half of the amendments. I’ll get into some more detail... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | Are You Excited About Internet Censorship? | Today the Senate’s House Judiciary Committee is handling the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA).
Because there are dozens of amendments to be discussed, a vote on the bill probably won’t happen before tomorrow.
This gives the public some extra... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Bipartisan group offers sane alternative to SOPA. Guess what Hollywood thinks | The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, also known as E-PARASITE) has been roundly condemned by a wide range of tech companies, consumer groups, digital rights advocacy organizations, and members of Congress concerned about the havoc the bill cou... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill From Wyden And Issa | Sen. Wyden and Rep. Issa have released a draft of OPEN: Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act, intended as an alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP. See my prior posts opposing SOPA and linkwrapping the discussion. Unlike SOPA’s... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | 3 Lessons Learned from the Carrier IQ Falderal | The revelation two weeks ago from security researcher Trevor Eckhart (see YouTube video) that performance measurement software installed by carriers on Android phones record dialer keystrokes, resulted in the almost autonomous generation of... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | SOPA Alternative Bill Would Shift Piracy Cases to Trade Commission | The U.S. International Trade Commission would be the court of first instance for disputes brought by parties claiming that a Web site hosted offshore is trafficking in its intellectual property, in a draft of a bi-partisan bill released tod... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | OPEN, The Alternative to SOPA | Not only “The Internet” is against the Stop Online Piracy Act, dozens of politicians also have their doubts.
In a response, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and several colleagues just released draft legislation that is... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Details On SOPA/PIPA Alternative Released… With Open Requests For Feedback | As expected, the effort by Senator Wyden and Rep. Issa to put together an alternative to SOPA/PIPA has now been released. And while we can dig into the specifics in a bit, what may be most interesting is how they’ve released the text. Unlik... |
| Votação do PIPA também foi adiada, seguindo o adiamento do SOPA anunciado terça-feira | O senador norte-americano Harry Reid comunicou o adiamento da votação da lei pró-propriedade autoral PIPA – sem data prevista para votação.
A outra notícia divulgada hoje por outros meios de imprensa, de que o congressista Lamar Smith, prop... |
| Votação do PIPA também foi adiada, seguindo o adiamento do SOPA anunciado terça-feira | O senador norte-americano Harry Reid comunicou o adiamento da votação da lei pró-propriedade autoral PIPA – sem data prevista para votação.
A outra notícia divulgada hoje por outros meios de imprensa, de que o congressista Lamar Smith, prop... |
| Opinião do leitor: participe da enquete sobre SOPA, PIPA e OPEN Act | Estava prevista para hoje uma audiência na Casa Branca, sede do governo dos Estados Unidos, para votação do Ato de Proteção à Propriedade Intelectual (PIPA), que vem sendo tratado junto com o Ato para o Fim da Pirataria Online (SOPA).
Entre... |
| SOPA e PIPA ainda ameaçam liberdade na web mundial; projeto OPEN Act pode ser alternativa | Houve reclamações na web de que algumas pessoas teriam manipulado o “swarm do SOPA” (protesto espontâneo massivo), acalmando os protestos para o governo ganhar tempo, etc. Volto ao assunto porque fui um dos primeiros no Brasil – ou poucos –... |
| PIPA perde a linha e SOPA pode acabar em pizza | O Congresso dos Estados Unidos da América estaria votando hoje o Ato Contra a Pirataria Online (Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA) e o Ato de Proteção ao Direito Autoral (Protect Intellectual Property Act), que vem sendo comparado ao AI5 Digital... |
| Opinião do leitor: participe da enquete sobre SOPA, PIPA e OPEN Act | Estava prevista para hoje uma audiência na Casa Branca, sede do governo dos Estados Unidos, para votação do Ato de Proteção à Propriedade Intelectual (PIPA), que vem sendo tratado junto com o Ato para o Fim da Pirataria Online (SOPA).
Entre... |
