Topic: Patrick Leahy
For Internet activists, last week's Web protests against two controversial copyright enforcement bills were a huge victory against three powerful...
The NetCoalition, the organization of Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and eBay that was instrumental in turning back anti-piracy legislation...
Earlier this month Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Schumer secured some funding for the seventeen Lake Champlain Basin stream gauges. But at an...
Photo: Richard Drew/AP. . The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread...
Photo: studio08denver/Flickr/CC. . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Friday delayed indefinitely a vote on the Protect IP Act, the...
Tweet . . . AFTER this week a lot more people will know that SOPA stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. Some 30m-40m of them, estimated...
Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act cheered Wednesday's Web blackout as a turning point in the debate over the two ...
Two activist groups, one liberal and one conservative, have joined together in a campaign to defeat U.S. lawmakers supporting two controversial ...
Legislation giving equal federal rights to same-sex married couples in the United States cleared a major hurdle Thursday, but it still has far to go before it becomes the law of the land.By a 10-8 vote along party lines, the Senate ...
The IRS has some pretty tough privacy laws. If you've ever tried to order a tax transcript or ask a tax question, you know what I'm talking about...