{"id":87,"date":"2010-09-30T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.masspirates.org\/?p=87"},"modified":"2010-09-30T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:56:03","slug":"internet-censorship-bill-delayed-for-now-thanks-for-fighting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/internet-censorship-bill-delayed-for-now-thanks-for-fighting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet censorship bill delayed, for now.  Thanks for fighting it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/09\/victory-internet-censorship-bill-delayed\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804\" target=\"_blank\">COICA<\/a>) has been postponed until after the election.\u00a0 This is great news.\u00a0 Thank you to all of you who contacted Senators Brown and Kerry asking them to oppose it!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they will be bringing it back, so we cannot let our guard down.\u00a0 Instead we must continue to pressure the Congress to oppose this bill and other attempts to impose censorship on the internet.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t done so already, please contact both Senators Brown and Kerry and urge them to oppose  COICA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott Brown<br \/>\n(202) 224-4543<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Kerry<br \/>\n(202) 224-2742<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, please sign the <a href=\"http:\/\/demandprogress.org\/blacklist\/\" target=\"_blank\">on-line petition<\/a> against COICA and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.masspirates.org\/2010\/09\/28\/tell-your-senator-to-say-no-to-coica\/\" target=\"_self\">learn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/coica\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100922\/03455311107\/how-the-attempted-censorship-of-file-sharing-sites-avoids-due-process.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">about<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100920\/12460811083\/us-senators-propose-bill-to-censor-any-sites-the-justice-depatement-declares-pirate-sites-worldwide.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA) has been postponed until after the election.\u00a0 This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}