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A to Z – The Definitive Guide to SOPA

UPDATE - unlike most posts, updating as new links are discovered. Updates highlighted & summarized in ‘history’ section. Latest? Check out our ‘blackout sampler’ search engine - powered by Nikki Blight‘s blog, SOPA Strike, & OpSOPA.

Background material for future post on ‘plausible futures’ of legislation similar to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Enjoy!

First, the ‘Simple SOPA’ whiteboard overview

Action

Anonymous’ guide
Ask for PIPA meeting
Call – via Skype (&/or get Congressional contact info)
Digest – Ben Parr – Michael Phillips
Email / petition Congress
Go to town hall – your state
Mod avatar – Facebook cover – Twitter ribbon
Reverse Robocaller
See Simple SOPA
Sign AVAAZ petition
Track SOPA & PIPA on reddit – storify
Update website banner (scroll down)
View – infographic – video - Secretary of State Clinton on Internet Freedoms
Website ‘gone dark’ template – preview – code @ github
WordPress – plugin & ‘eXtensions’ section near end
WWJD? Set his videos to private & redirect to hearings

Blackout on 1/18/2012 – AKA ‘blockade’, ‘outage’, ‘protest’, ‘strike’

Most up-to-date list of participating sites? See SOPA Strike along with Nikki Blight’s blog & OpSOPA, or perhaps search. For representative effect, use Internet Blackout custom search engine.
SEO considerations for website blackouts – also via Matt Cutts @ Google – tweet, tweet, & Google+
reddit - Alexis Ohanian – reddit cofounder (also w/ Breadpig & Hipmunk) – video ‘to Internet’& NBC debate video - invite to testify [Congressional appearance on hold given SOPA vote being delayed] – summary of his activities.
Anonymous – hire lobbyist like everyone else?
BoingBoing
Cheezburgr - images for your blog posts
CloudFlare – stop censorship app
Coverage - how social media helped stall SOPA legislation?
craigslist & their position piece
Explosm
GOG – Google
Hmm – create Stop SOPA education games
How-to blackout webmaster – drupal – wordpress
League of Legends – ‘supported’ by Congressman Polis
Major League Gaming – Minecraft [decided]
PornOut – yep, hit ’em where it hurts
quora
SOPA Blackout – video & info
VPS
Wikipedia – now sans DEFCON image – thinking - Wikipedia joins the blackout - confirmed by Jimmy Wales - tweets
WordPress stance – plug–in – 15% of Internet – 54% of CMS

Congress – Representatives & Senators

‘Vote track’ – ProPublica – SOPA – SOPA map – PIPA map
Ben Cardin (D-MD) [PIPA co-sponsor] – tiptoeing & caving
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) [PIPA co-sponsor]
Darrell Issa (R-CA) [OPEN co-sponsor] – CES – OPEN, but why RWA? – w/ geeks
Eric Cantor (R-VA, House majority leader)– SOPA House vote delay– focus on PIPA
Jared Polis (D-CO)– many OPEN indicators, e.g., ‘League of Legends’
Lamar Smith (R-TX) [SOPA sponsor] – caught – withdraws blocking – no buckling - sir, here’s the problem with Section 103 of SOPA
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) [PIPA co-sponsor]
John Cornyn (R-TX) [PIPA co-sponsor]
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) – Operation ‘GRAHAM CRACKER’
Mark Udall (D-CO) – opposes PIPA
Mitch McConnell (R-KY, Senate minority leader]
Mike Lee (R-UT) [PIPA co-sponsor]
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) [PIPA co-sponsor]
Paul Ryan (R-WI) – Operation ‘PULL RYAN’ – changes mind
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [PIPA sponsor] – PIPA Amendment? – remove re–directs?
Ron Paul (R-TX)– they want to ‘take over’ the Internet
Ron Wyden (D-OR) [OPEN sponsor] – to CES – ‘last rounds’ – & more since last year
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) – blocked opening statement

Hmm, appears someone slipped in a ‘filibuster’…

Deep–Dive Analyses & Link Wraps

Entertainment Industry

EA, Nintendo, & Sony drop support?
Graphics Artists Guild drops support
MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America – caught? – obstruction ‘clears way’ for action?
RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America

Freedom

Google

Ditch U.S. Chamber? – MoveOn – RMS
Google, Facebook & friends key in Reddit’s SOPA Blackout
Google on Google
Matt Cutts, Google’s search quality guru, tweets on SOPA
‘Must Join’? – what you can do
Rebuffs Rupert Murdoch ‘piracy leader‘ claims
‘Stop SOPA’ Google logo doodle suggestions?
versus Rupert Murdoch
Will they / won’t they? Yes – they will post banner on their home page

History – Past, Present, & Future?

11/17/2011 – committee hearing
12/15/2011 – never end – stenographer check – vote delay
12/28/2011 – Operation ‘GRAHAM CRACKER’ deferred
12/28/2011 – Operation ‘PULL RYAN’ launched
12/29/2011 – GoDaddy Migration Day
1/13/2012 – DNS provision pulled, victory? – officially – delayed & shelved – focus turns
1/14/2012 – Obama administration via ‘We the People’ – SOPA supporters ‘on the run’
1/16/2012 - daily actions / updates – note, MLK Day – speech ain’t free

Al Gore & Frank Zappa having a conversation.
Alexis Ohanian’s activities (Reddit co-founder)
Bad industrial policy
Censorship in the Netherlands?
CloudFlare – stop censorship app
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, speaks out
David Seaman no longer contrd_ibutor for NBC - musings - IB Times
Google rebuffs Rupert Murdoch ‘piracy leader‘ claims
Hmm, H.R. 3605 Global Online Freedom Act of 2011
How far we’ve come, how far we need to go
How social media movement stalled SOPA legislation?
Local News Coverage – Omaha!
MPAA & SOPA supporters claim obstruction ‘clears the way’ for action?
President’s Challenge – what does gov’t want from tech world?
Republican presidential debate – Fox News via NYT - reddit - twitter - ROE - Q&A
Send a sympathy card over Internet death to your senator
SOPA is a red herring?
Skyline banner over Packers playoff game
SOPA Infographic - Internet leaders
Wikipedia joins the blackout - confirmed by Jimmy Wales - tweets - Twitter disagrees
Why blackout?

1/17/2012

Updated ‘blackout’ search engine - re: Nikki Blight, SOPA Strike, & OpSOPA - 1799+ sites & counting
Businesses that don’t deliver won’t survive
It’s All in How You View It
Mike Masnick debates SOPA & PIPA with MPAA & U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Research Works Act – AKA, SOPA II
Save the Internet – debate with these folks, 1230 EST

Alexis Ohanian, reddit co-founder (via video)
Craig Newmark, craigslist founder (via video)
Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices co-founder
Adam Green, Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder
Julian Sanchez, Cato Institute fellow
Brad Burnham, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
Dmitry Shapiro, Veoh founder (via video)
Jayme White, Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade

SEO considerations for website blackouts – also via Matt Cutts @ Google - tweet, tweet, & Google+
State of the Net Conference – 10:00 AM, EST

Paul Brigner, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Policy Officer, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Dr. Stephen D. Crocker, Chair, ICANN Board; CEO, Shinkuro, Inc.
Tim Lordan, Executive Director, Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (Moderator)
Mike Masnick, Editor, techdirt
Steve Tepp, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Torbit – javascript plug-in

1/18/2012

hearing [postponed!] vs. blackout
also, NYC protest [at offices of Senators Schumer & Gillibrand

1/24/2012 – PIPA vote

Hmm, anyone remember the Alien & Sedition Act

Important People

Al Gore & Frank Zappa having a conversation
Ashton Kutcher (more on Ashton's tech cred) – #SOPA
Brad Feld – American Censorship Day
Dave Winer – OWS & SOPA – tech & politics
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, speaks out
David Seaman no longer contributor for NBC - musings
Igor Panarin – U.S. Collapse?
Jesus
Jimmy Wales

Jests & Jokes

Killing…

American jobs
Art & creativity online
Hosted websites, i.e., most of them
[the] Internet
Innovation Investment – i.e., startups
Open–Access Journals – taxpayer dollars behind pay wall?
Scientific Debate – Michael Hamm, LANL / Huffington Post
Science & Commerce – Alex Wild, Scientific American
‘Your Mom’ & Work–at–Home (WAHM) Business

Legislation

COICA – S.3804 – Combating Online Infringement & Counterfeits Act
DCMA – P.L. 105–304 – Digital Millennium Copyright Act
GOFA – H.R. 3605 – Global Online Freedom Act
NDAA – 2012 (pdf) – National Defense Authorization Act
OPEN – Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade Act – sponsor – public comment – analysis – ‘A to Z’ support
PIPA – S. 978 – PROTECT IP Act
RWA – H.R. 3699 – Research Works Act – analysis – why - AKA, SOPA II
SOPA – H.R. 3261 – DNS provision pulled [1/13/2012]
U.S. Constitution – Bill of Rights – First Amendment – Sedition Act

Media Coverage

ABC
AP
Bloomberg
CBS
CNN
CNBC
Fox
Fortune
Google
MSNBC – video [NBC Universal, Executive VP vs. Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, zealously police / face legal sanction - most important bill you never heard of - yes, re: example, Happy Birthday is copyrighted] – comment moderation? – Rachel Maddow coverage?
NPR
Reuters