Hacking Politics · How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists, and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet by Segal, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents A Moment for Aaron Foreword by the Editors Hacking Politics: TLDR Part 1: The World Before SOPA/PIPA

For Me, It All Started with a Phone Call The History of the Copyright Wars Before SOPA There Was Net Neutrality COICA, PIPA, and SOPA Are Censorship

Part 2: The SOPA/PIPA Battle

Now I Work for Demand Progress Beginning on the Right Demand Progress Needs a “Washington Guy” SOPA’s Elevation of Profits Over Patients: The Online Pharmacy Story Lobbying Republicans Through the Summer The Tea Party Enters the Fray Gamers and Justin Bieber Join the Cause Clashes With the Big Guns Labor Sides with the Bosses Turning the Tide on SOPA What Was Lamar Smith Thinking? A Punch in the Gut Waking the Sleeping Giant Who’s Crazy Now? Nearing the Point of No Return The Markup Bring in the Nerds: The Importance of Technical Experts in Defeating SOPA and PIPA People Powered Politics To the White House On the White House’s Statement Proposal to Reach Consensus on Statement Against the Stop Online Piracy Act The Blackout Congress Says: “This Can’t be Happening” I Live, Work, Play, and Love Online Blowing Congress Wide Open Why Reddit Helped Kill SOPA If Reddit’s Turned Off, Maybe They’ll Leave the House That Day Internet 1, Congress 0 Championing Technology and Free Speech in Congress Was Lonely ... But Not Anymore After the Blackout Who Really Stopped SOPA—and Why Legislative Fights Are Like Icebergs Not in Our Names: Artists Stand Up for Expression I Stopped SOPA and So Did You Why Did the Anti-SOPA/PIPA Movement Go Viral So Quickly? The Internet Beat SOPA and PIPA: And Mean the Entire Damn Thing A Political Coming of Age This Time, the System Actually Mostly Worked

Part 3: Some Activism Since SOPA

Cyber Security and Party Platforms Fallout from the Copyfight The Seizure of Dajaz1 An Interview with Julia O’Dwyer Raps with Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom

Part 4: What We’ve Learned

Part 5: Where Do We Go from Here?

The Battle for Internet Freedom Is Critical for the Liberty Movement A Case for Digital Activism by Artists On the Freedom to Innovate SOPA and the Popular First Amendment Blanket Licenses: One Path Forward in Copyright Reform The Internet Can Help Strike at the Root

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