> >Subject: MOMENTUM GROWING: MORE THAN 3, 000 DEMAND PROGRESS MEMBERS CALL HOUSE > AND SENATE, URGE REJECTION OF INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILL >From: Morgan Callahan <[email protected]> >To: "Change Links" <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:46:29 +0000 (UTC) > > >Change Links, > > > >Please see below for details about the growing momentum against PROTECT IP. > > > >Let me know if you have any questions or need a quote, > > > >Morgan > >Demand Progress > > > > > > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > >Thursday May 26, 2011 >Contact: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > > > >MOMENTUM GROWING: MORE THAN 3,000 DEMAND PROGRESS MEMBERS CALL HOUSE >AND SENATE, URGE REJECTION OF INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILL >PROTECT IP Act would force Internet service providers to block >Americans' access to websites > >Washington, DC: Momentum against Senator Patrick Leahy's PROTECT IP >Act is snowballing, with more than 3,000 Demand Progress members >calling their members of the House and Senate to urge them to oppose >the Internet censorship legislation. The calls were made in front >of today's Senate Judiciary Committee markup of the legislation. > >The legislation would force internet service providers, search >engines, and other "information location tools" to blacklist >websites accused of copyright infringement and block Americans' access to them. > >More than 60,000 Americans have signed Demand Progress's petition >against PROTECT IP, and more than 350,000 Americans have signed >Demand Progress's anti-COICA petition. Earlier this week the Motion >Picture Association of America and Variety attacked Demand Progress >by name for organizing Americans to oppose the bill. The PROTECT IP >petition is posted here: > > ><http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/>http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/ > >Last week Google CEO Eric Schmidt came out against the legislation, >saying "[If] it's passed by both houses of Congress and signed by >the president of the United States, and we disagree with it, then we >would still fight it...If it's a request, the answer is we wouldn't do it." > >Yesterday Demand Progress and more than a dozen human rights and >civil liberties groups sent a letter in opposition to PROTECT IP to >Leahy, cautioning that the bill "risks setting a precedent for other >countries, even democratic ones, to use DNS mechanisms to enforce a >range of domestic policies, erecting barriers on the global medium >of the Internet." The full letter is posted here: > ><http://www.publicknowledge.org/Public-Interest-Letter-PROTECT-IP-Act>http://www.publicknowledge.org/Public-Interest-Letter-PROTECT-IP-Act > >David Segal, Campaign Director for Demand Progress, remarks on the >momentum against PROTECT IP: "It's a great rarity for thousands of >Americans to call Congress about an Internet or civil liberties >bill: Our success is drawing our opponent's wrath, and drawing ever >more attention to these critical issues. We hope Congress heeds our >concerns and declines to institute this un-American Internet >censorship regime." > >Demand Progress is a political action committee and online activist >group with more than 400,000 members. > >###
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