Stop Online Piracy Act: Can Google, Facebook, tech wonks, and Web activists kill the Stop Online Piracy Act? (Slate)
The Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as SOPA, was one of the most popular bipartisan bills of the year. But a flurry of opposition grew among a number of open-Internet groups and now thousands of people and many major organizations have joined the campaign to stop the passage of SOPA. Slate’s Will Oremus calls them ‘the geek lobby.’
Poll: Obama Top Among Tweeters (POLITICO)
Plus: “Twitter users tend to lean more to the left: 13 percent of liberal Democrats say they use the tool, compared to 8 percent of conservatives and 6 percent of tea party supporters. Black adults are more Twitter-savvy than whites – 14 percent of African-Americans say they tweet, double the percentage of whites who are fluent in the 140-character messages, the poll found.”
