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Launch Plan For Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Advocacy Group Contained Several Errors

David Cohen — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:33:04 +0000

The launch plan for the political advocacy group being led by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg encountered a few issues, as Joe Green, the plan’s author and a roommate of Zuckerberg at Harvard University, confirmed to Politico that it contained several inaccuracies.

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Facebook Releases 2012 Year In Review, Allows Users To Follow Suit

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:48:46 +0000

With 2012 drawing to a close, Wednesday was year in review time at Facebook, as the social network released its 2012 Year in Review, as well as instructions for its users to create their own year in review posts.

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Facebook Doubles Its Lobbying Ahead Of IPO

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:11:49 +0000

Facebook filed its first quarter lobbying reports with the U.S. Senate today and the numbers indicate that the social site is on pace for another record year, spending $650,000 so far in 2012. continued…

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After SOPA, PIPA, Why’s Facebook Liking CISPA? [UPDATED]

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:00:18 +0000

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has a few things in common with the defeated Secure Online Information Privacy Act the Protect Internet Property Act besides rhyming acronyms, except that Facebook likes CISPA, despite very publicly hating SOPA and PIPA. continued…

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Kill SOPA Facebook App: Too Little, Too Late

David Cohen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:42:17 +0000

Can you kill something if it’s already dead? We got an email yesterday afternoon about a Facebook application called Kill SOPA when it was already moot.

Key backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, and several other lawmakers, had already announced that they were dropping their support of the bills.

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Facebook CEO And Users Rant About SOPA [UPDATED]

David Cohen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:09 +0000

Facebook elected not to go dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, unlike Google, which blocked out its logo, and Wikipedia, which actually went grey.

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SOPA Lives On Despite Facebook Opposition

David Cohen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:41:16 +0000

Facebook may be approaching one billion users, but that doesn’t scare Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas).

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Would Facebook Go Dark To Boycott Online Piracy Bill?

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:24:40 +0000

We highly doubt this particular rumor would ever come true, but the blogosphere and Twitterverse are chattering that Facebook could pull the plug in protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act pending in the U.S. Congress.

Consider a day without Facebook — or Google, Twitter, Wikipedia or Yahoo, for that matter.

These heavily trafficked web sites are joining Facebook in considering a coordinated blackout as a powerful demonstration of what the Internet might look like if SOPA went into effect.

While implementation at this point seems unlikely — it’s dubbed the “nuclear option” after all — the rumor mill went into high alert after Markham Erickson, an executive with the industry trade group NetCoalition, confirmed to Fox News that companies were mulling over a blackout of services, despite what a boycott would do to users.

“Companies typically don’t want to put their users in that position,” Erickson said. “The difference is that these bills so fundamentally change the way the Internet works. People need to understand the effect this special-interest legislation will have on those who use the Internet.”

So what might a boycott look like? Would Facebook go completely dark, or would users be re-directed to a site that posted a message about SOPA. And, would Facebook ask users to take action–write a letter to a member of Congress, sign an online petition, or share a message with friends?

Actually, Facebook is a great platform to launch that type of advocacy campaign. Anti-SOPA ads and sponsored stories could be developed, and of course, the option to share links to anti-SOPA news stories would spread quickly on the social networking site and could build support against the legislation.

Opponents claim one provision of the controversial bill would require Internet providers to monitor customers’ traffic and block web sites suspected of copyright infringement, which sets off alarms among Facebook and its counterparts.

SOPA is scheduled for a debate in the U.S. Senate in late January before its put to a vote.

Readers, what would you do if Facebook went offline for a day?

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Facebook Joins Internet Giants Endorsing Piracy Bill

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:03:11 +0000

Facebook and seven major online companies have endorsed an alternative online piracy bill that they believe would keep the Internet open and foster innovation.

The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade, or OPEN Act, is co-sponsored by Republican Representative Darrell Issa of California and Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon.

The legislation is an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its counterpart, Protect IP.

Facebook and other oppenents of SOPA claim it would restrict the Internet in ways that would not only result in censorship but also create information monopolies.

Web firms oppose the provisions in SOPA that would require search engines and other sites to delete links to sites deemed to be “dedicated” to copyright infringement.

The online community argues such a requirement would result in censorship of the web, according to the political newspaper, The Hill.

The OPEN Act has the backing of Facebook and such Internet heavyweights as AOL, eBay, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga, which together co-signed a letter to legislators late last month.

The letter states that the OPEN Act’s “approach targets foreign rogue sites without inflicting collateral damage on legitimate, law-abiding U.S. Internet companies by bringing well-established international trade remedies to bear on this problem.”

In a news release introducing the OPEN Act, Senator Wyden and Representative Issa claim that the proposal “fights the unauthorized sale of digital goods and protects Internet security, commerce and speech.”

The graphic below, taken from the OPEN Act’s website, compares the major piracy bills.

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