Salon.com > Protect Intellectual Property Act http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Reid bows to online protest http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/reid_caves_in_response_to_online_protest/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/reid_caves_in_response_to_online_protest/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:19:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12205561 After Wednesday's one-day  blackout of Wikipedia, Craigslist and scores of other sites to protest the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act; after Google's collection of a reported 7 million petition signatures; after seven co-sponsors of the Senate bill repudiated it and dozens of other rejected it, attention turned to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a supporter of the legislation. What would he do in response to the historic digital outcry?

On Friday morning, Reid settled the matter. "In light of recent events," read a statement sent out by his office, "I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act."

The move by Reid to hit pause on the bill, known as PIPA, is a big deal -- not least as an acknowledgment that online protest is shaping his agenda.

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