NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma » PIPA http://newstalk1290.com Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Legislation Poses Threat To Your Right To Read This With Proposed SOPA and PIPA Bills http://newstalk1290.com/legislation-poses-threat-to-your-right-to-read-this/ http://newstalk1290.com/legislation-poses-threat-to-your-right-to-read-this/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:30:07 +0000 Mike Hendren http://newstalk1290.com/?p=16888 Ever heard of SOPA? How about PIPA? For most of you the answer is likely no on both counts. Both of these have to potential to do serious damage to our First Amendment rights to free speech and expression.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/legislation-poses-threat-to-your-right-to-read-this/feed/ 0 What Websites Went Dark For the SOPA Blackout? [IMAGES] http://newstalk1290.com/sopa-blackout-websites/ http://newstalk1290.com/sopa-blackout-websites/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:06:16 +0000 Shauna Wright http://thefw.com/?p=83489 On Tuesday, we told you about some of the sites — Wikipedia, Reddit and the Cheezburger network among them — that planned to go dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/sopa-blackout-websites/feed/ 0 Wikipedia Twitter Users Completely Freak Out Over the SOPA and PIPA Blackout [IMAGES] http://newstalk1290.com/twitter-sopa-pipa-blackout/ http://newstalk1290.com/twitter-sopa-pipa-blackout/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:54:21 +0000 Nick Romano http://thefw.com/?p=83473 Who would’ve thought that a simple Congressional bill aimed at ending online piracy with the same potential to censor the entire internet community would cause such a mass panic? But that’s exactly what’s going on, especially with Twitter users.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/twitter-sopa-pipa-blackout/feed/ 0 @ladygagaasian, Twitter Wikipedia, Reddit, Cheezburger Network and More Sites to Go Dark in Protest of SOPA http://newstalk1290.com/sopa-protest/ http://newstalk1290.com/sopa-protest/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:06:41 +0000 Shauna Wright http://thefw.com/?p=83193 Homework will be harder to do and bar bets tougher to win starting at midnight ET on Tuesday, when Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress.

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