Senator Brown Says He'll Vote 'No' on Anti-Piracy Bills
As Wikipedia prepares to blackout the English-language site Wednesday to protest two Congressional anti-piracy bills, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown tweeted his plans to vote against the bills.
Wikipedia will blackout the English language version of its website on Wednesday for 24 hours to protest anti-piracy legislation being considered in Congress. The Wikimedia Foundation, the force behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia, released a a statement Monday night about the planned blackout. The company, along with others including Twitpic and Wordpress will blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, as well as the proposed Protect Intellectual Property Act, according to the Associated Press. Critics claim the legislation could infringe on free-speech rights as well as weaken cyber-security for companies and hinder rights to domain access. Tuesday afternoon, US Senator Scott Brown joined more than a dozen other…
Paul Henrion
10:56 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Senator, as a Republican and a lawyer supporting high tech companies in cloud computing, privacy, IT security and employment law issues, you need to do more than just vote NO on SOPA and PIPA. As the FTC learned in privacy and IT security, you need to regulate bad acts holding the bad actors accountable, NOT REGULATE TECHNOLOGY. Hurting the new internet marketplace and the firms who deliver it by… more ›