Internet “strike” changed that, allowing Web firms to show political muscle in ways that the entertainment industry cannot easily duplicate. To stay safe in real life, we give up some liberty. Online, we’re not ready to sacrifice freedoms. In 1996,...

Reddit.com shut down its social news service for 12 hours. John Perry Barlow, center, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, addresses a protest in front of the building housing the New York offices of U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen...

crowd listened to an all-star rotation of New York tech luminaries, who were introduced between chants of, “This is what democracy looks like!” (speakers included Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in a full “lobbyist suit,” per a fellow speaker’s description, the cyberlibertarian activist John Perry Barlow in cowboy boots and a scarf emblazoned with black and white Jolly Rogers—a nod to the piracy, and NYU professor Clay Shirky, who recommended renaming SOPA, "The First Amendment sunset act.”), news broke on the web that a bi-partisan group of Senators had announced they were dropping support of

Speakers will include social media intellectual Clay Shirkey and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. As of about noon, 1,500 people had indicated on NY Tech's website that they would be attending the protest. Both Sen. Schumer...

“Stop SOPA, Pass on PIPA” they chanted. The gathering was held outside the offices of their Senate representatives, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, to protest the anti-piracy bills being debated in D.C. “You are the party of future,” said John...

Tech Meetup, which hosts monthly meetings for startups, scheduled a protest for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in front of the midtown offices of U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Speakers will include social media intellectual Clay Shirkey...