On January 18, 2012, the Internet went dark in a series of coordinated protests against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, otherwise known as SOPA-PIPA (kind of like Salt-n-Pepa). The Glen Echo Group worked around the clock with users, companies and the Internet – really – to save the Internet. As a result, SOPA is now a verb. And nobody wants to be SOPA-ed. Our friends at Public Knowledge were kind enough to host a retrospective earlier this month as part of THEIR 20th Anniversary and it got… spicy.
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