- October 16, 2013 – Hundreds gather in Manhattan for debut of new NSA video narrated by Evangeline Lilly — projected onto the side of a building
- October 15, 2013 – Advisory: New NSA video narrated by Evangeline Lilly to be projected on Manhattan building during debut October 15th
- April 4, 2013 – Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian and digital rights advocates Fight for the Future team up save Google, Twitter, and Facebook’s Privacy Policy from CISPA
- March 19, 2013 – Internet Defense League raises ‘Cat Signal’ warning against CISPA. Over 30,000 websites currently broadcasting a message that allows users to take action.
- February 14, 2013 – DEMAND PROGRESS AND FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE DELIVER NEARLY 300,000 SIGNATURES BY EMAIL AND TWITTER AGAINST CISPA AT THE FIRST HEARING ON CONTROVERSIAL CYBERSECURITY BILL
- January 21, 2013 – Video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech taken down for copyright violation on ‘Internet Freedom Day’ resurfaces on YouTube. Advocates say it will never be censored.
- December 4th, 2012 – COALITION OF INTERNET FREEDOM GROUPS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE, DELIVER TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES TO ITU MEETINGS IN DUBAI
- October 31st, 2012 – Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Others Launch Facebook GOTV Strategy Through “Voting Blocks” App
- August 8th, 2012 – “Internet Spring” Continues with a 3-0 Winning Streak SOPA, ACTA, and Now CISPA All Blocked by the Internet in 2012
- May 24, 2012 – Internet Freedom Group Fight for the Future Responds to Google’s Transparency Report.
- May 24, 2012 – Fight For The Future Launches “Privacy is Awesome” Website to Organize Against Legislation Violating Internet Users’ Right to Privacy – CISPA
- JANUARY 20, 2012 – Fight for the Future applauds the announcement that the Senate and House have postponed action on the proposed web censorship bills.
- JANUARY 19, 2012 – LARGEST ONLINE PROTEST IN HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS
- JANUARY 18, 2012 – Top Internet Sites Join Largest Online Protest Ever in Opposition to Pending Internet Censorship Legislation
- JANUARY 18, 2012 – SOPA Strike: Largest Online Protest in History Planned for Wednesday
- JANUARY 17, 2012 – WEB WILL STRIKE ON JANUARY 18TH DESPITE SOME PROGRESS ON STOPPING PASSAGE OF SOPA AND PIPA>
- JANUARY 11, 2012 – Local Internet Freedom Groups, Opponents Of Internet Censorship Bills Take Their Disapproval to Town Halls, Meetings With Lawmakers
- DECEMBER 16, 2011 – Reddit Co-Founder to Host Stop Online Piracy Act Telethon Starting At 1PM Today
- DECEMBER 15, 2011 – Get Your Censor On: American Censorship Coalition Releases Comics About How Much The Internet Would Suck If SOPA Passes
- DECEMBER 14, 2011 – As Companies And Sites Pile On Against SOPA, AmericanCensorship.org Offers Tools To Help Fight Back
- DECEMBER 11, 2011 – INTERNET GEARS UP TO KILL STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT IN FRONT OF HOUSE COMMITTE VOTE THIS WEEK
- NOVEMBER 29, 2011 – Groups Launch Week Of Calls To Senate In Opposition To Censorship Legislation
- NOVEMBER 16, 2011 – Countless Websites And Tech Companies Come Out Against Stop
Online Piracy Act - NOVEMBER 15, 2011 – Demand Progress, Fight for the Future hold press conf with Reps Issa and Lofgren, Present more than 500k signatures against Internet censorship
- NOVEMBER 15, 2011 – Unprecedented Strike-Back from the Internet – Huge Sites Come Out to Fight Worst Bill in Internet History
- NOVEMBER 10, 2011 – The Internet Fights Back: Groups Announce Day Of Protest Against “Internet Blacklist” Bill
- OCTOBER 28, 2011 – Addendum, Re: Justin Bieber VS Klobuchar: Contact Info For Copyright Experts
- OCTOBER 28, 2011 – Justin Bieber Says Senator Klobuchar (D-MN) Should Be “put away in cuffs” for Her Sponsorship of Extreme Copyright Bill
- OCTOBER 26, 2011 – New Fight For The Future Video Tears Apart PROTECT IP Act
- OCTOBER 19, 2011 – Justin Bieber could face five years in prison under new copyright law
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Congress, Representatives, and all of you in the government, we see though your little scheme, you are taking over our FIRST AMENDMENT! but this is what I have to say, Hell to the no with that!
Us people have to take action. Vote, vote, not only to stop censorship, but to get the law to be changed, No congress representatives, No Senators, should be elected more than one term and only one term. No judge to be appointed to any Judaical office, from supreme court to lower court. only by electing them. 8 years term and they are out.
The links to your press releases don’t work. I just end up with a blank Google Docs document. I’m running Firefox, nothing special… If you actually WANT press coverage, why not make it a bit easier for journalists to access your statements? For example, by posting the text on your own plain-HTML page? I know, call me a dreamer…
Greetings from Australia.
Tell your damn country to keep its fingers out of my rights. We will not accept US oppression of our rights.
The US Government is now the worlds greatest threat to foreign governments rights to police and govern itself, as well as to the rights of people around the world. This is going too far. The US Government is not welcome on my site. If this goes ahead, I will personally see the US Government as an enemy and an oppressor of my nation.
Together we are stronger!
Finally the ” sheople” are becoming active Americans …breaking out of the Short Attention Span Theater to protect and retain the rights guaranteed to American citizens by the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA! !!
no time to rest!!!!
this was only a little win. i bet they’ll bring it back, just packed more nicely!!!
Congress, we will never stop fighting for what we know is right and belongs to the people!
You old fools need to execute more energy on thinking thoroughly and put a stop to thinking about power and money.
I have to tell you that this victory has TOTALLY blown my mind.
I thought democracy did not exist anymore in America.
MAYBE I WAS WRONG.
I need to rethink it.
I do not at all believe the majority of our elected representatives want to stop freedom of speech and freedom of the press. However, no one in the modern era can be an expert on everything. Our elected officials are dependent upon information from individuals and groups who, like us all, have their own agenda. In this case, that was to protect copyrights and trademarks.
As a freelance writer and photographer, I am very concerned about violations of copyright and trademark. Some of us depend upon protection of our work for our livelihood.
But copyrights have been violated since they were invented. The only way to completely eliminate violations is to shut down every press, every public forum, every radio station, every television station, every cell phone, and eliminate the Internet altogether. Short of that, the most effective method to work against violations using technology is technology.
The Loveshade Family and others were able to use technology to raise awareness of the problems of SOPA and PIPA back in November 2011. And we were happy to participate in the strike on January 18, 2012.
Perhaps someday issues like this will be worked on by those who understand how things actualy work and what is really at stake. But that day is not now. As elected representatives cannot be experts on everything, under our current system we will continue to have these problems. We must continue to stay vigilant.
Maybe a little less time focusing on people downloading outrageously priced software and a little more time geting this country out of the shithole its in. Think of it like this, if we didn’t download what we do, do you honestly think we would go and pay for it. No money is lost, only our country by “China-Syndrome” bills like this.
NO we have NOT WON.
DON’T tell people we’ve won. That is exactly what companies like the RIAA want. If we think we’ve won, we’ll stop fighting. If we stop fighting, we’re easier to ignore.
yes we can, sopa strike for freedom of speech, expression and creativity
Each authoritarianism produces resistance. I think – they will not pass
took part of this and shut off everything for 24hr even thou i live in canada i think it is/was so important for people to take part of this – brilliant that they heard the voices
To those in the US Government considering another attempt to sneak this same legislation through in another disguise.
Listen up.
We’re watching.
You are under Supervision, now.
It’s been proven you can be and will be held Accountable for irresponsible actions involving your authority.
You can be Recalled.
You can be Voted Out.
You WILL BE if you try this kind of foolishness again.
Consider this defeat a stern warning from those who are your Employers and conduct yourselves properly and accordingly.
NO second chances.
And once you’ve been evicted from your positions should you engage in such abuse of your authority again, your replacements will doubtless take a lesson from the demise of your career and appointment to office.
You’ve been warned, consider it a kind-hearted favor as opposed to simply forcing you to exit office now.
And remember; No second chances.
This is only the start…
This is the New World
Soon, they will return, next time will be harder,
only ‘we’ can head them off.
The bill was tantamount to a communist manifesto
Why don’t the powers that be not criminalize the ones behind it!!
Long Live Freedom
It took all of us. This is better than voting!
Dear Internet citizens, we must also press not only against (i.e. reactive), but be proactive and work on TOTAL REFORM COPYRIGHTS, to say it in a politically correct manner, but to be forthcoming – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SHALL BE ILLEGAL – like SLAVERY. Face it – slavery is also a profitable form of economical relations. But, it is criminal and illegal, since the benefits are not compensated be drawbacks. Same story about ill conceived “intellectual property” i.e. a) abolish patents the (think about some anti product cloning provisions) b) abolish copyright for software c) reduce copyright terms for content to reasonable 10 years – SET WALT DISNEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FREE !!!
PIPA AND SOPA BETTER LEAVE OUR WEBSITES ALONE OR ELSE THEY DON’T KNOW WHATS COMING AT THEM!!!!!!
The movie companys and big-name recording studios spent over $13 million trying to get these laws passed. It would be foolish to think that there going to stop now. There going to bring it back and there willing to pay whatever it takes to make sure that NOTHING prevents them from stuffing more cash into there already bloated wallet. Congress and The House fail to fix the broke-ass economy or get us away from the Middle East, but as soon as Hollywood shows up with 13 million (pocket change to most of them) The goverments ready to back anything they want. Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and the countless other sites, plus the millions of individuals made the bills death possible and I sincerly thank everyone for that. But they will be back and we have to be ready. Bills like SOPA and PIPA are stepping stones to something far worse. A step towards complete tyranical control. People are waking up and starting to see. But we need to keep fighting to make sure they dont fall asleep again.
This is so amazing to be a part of. When I was younger and heard “just write your senators” I felt like that would just be a dead end. This shows we still have rights, we still have a voice and we def got each other. Props to all of us!!!! Life liberty and the pursuit! #powerful
We do not need SOPA and PIPA. Please vote no on legislation.
Indiana Senate Bill 0068 presented today at 10:00 a.m. Allows presidential candidate to be on primary ballot for $10,000 Instead of the 4500 voter signatures.The bill is in place to allow the rich to bypass the VOTER! Call Senator Mike Delph,who is campaigning for Santorum who has not gotten enough signatures! Can you spread the word?