Senate staff is now telling us that there’s likely a vote tomorrow (Thurs) afternoon on an amendment to revoke or narrow the so-called indefinite detention authorities that passed as part of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.  Huffington Post has a write-up here.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who helped write that amendment, declared Wednesday that it is [...]

Million-member Internet activism group Demand Progress is gearing up for a day of activism on Monday in concert with the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons case. This vastly under-reported case has tremendous implications for millions of Americans and could undermine our ability to use sites like Ebay and Craigslist [...]

With a few noble exceptions, the mainstream media has failed to give the critical issue of “indefinite detention” the attention it deserves. Today we launch an effort to “hack” around them, and make sure Americans know about this extraordinary threat to our civil liberties and the Obama administration’s attempts to fight a federal court’s finding [...]

  We just won the lawsuit against Obama et al over the indefinite detention provisions of the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. These provisions represented a blatant violation of due process and First Amendment rights, and plaintiffs argued that they were already having a chilling effect on journalists and activists. The NDAA included a [...]

Senator Wyden’s going to be reading names of censorship opponents from the floor of the Senate during his expected filibuster of the PROTECT IP Act. You can ask to have your name read — and ask your Senators to vote no — by visiting StopCensorship.org. The hope is that the uglier we make a prospective filibuster look, [...]

This Wednesday, Congress is considering a law that gives the US government (and any private corporation) the power to block websites, remove them from search engines, and cut off their sources of funding. Leading civil liberties and tech policy organizations are organizing an Internet-wide day of protest in response, inviting sites to turn their logos black [...]

A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill (PROTECT IP Act) will be introduced this week — probably tomorrow — by congressmembers Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Lamar Smith (R-TX) and others. Our allies on the Hill say the bill’s so bad that it could effectively [...]

“A direct assault on Internet users” is what the ACLU is calling it. Just before the break a House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers’ information — including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, [...]

“A direct assault on Internet users” is what the ACLU is calling it. Just before the break a House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers’ information — including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, [...]

This is in the voice of Demand Progress’s David Segal, who’s helping to organize the conference: Here’s an email that Fix Congress First put out about a conference I’m helping to organize — The Conference on the Constitutional Convention at Harvard , Sept 24-25 — to discuss the feasibility and advisability of organizing towards an Article V [...]

It was twenty years ago this week that Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, put the world’s first website online.  It announced his new creation: the World Wide Web.  Last year while urging Internet users to  sign Demand Progress’s petition against the Internet Blacklist Bill , Berners-Lee wrote this about the principles that underpin his project: “No person [...]

“A direct assault on Internet users” is what the ACLU is calling it.  Yesterday a U.S. House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill.  They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers’ information — including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account [...]

Demand Progress issued a release about S. 978, the “Ten Strikes” Act a few weeks ago. When, within days, hundreds of people were spreading the word about why it is so dangerous, we took the opportunity to compile some of these viewpoints. Check out the video we just made about S. 978: Both the opposition to [...]

Today more than 50 venture capitalists — from forty firms which have funded many of today’s most popular Internet companies — have announced their opposition to S968, Senator Leahy’s PROTECT IP (PIPA) Act. In a letter to Congress , the financiers noted PIPA, “will stifle investment in Internet services, throttle innovation, and hurt American competitiveness.” The new [...]

Osama Bin Laden is dead, but will the Patriot Act live on? The Patriot Act is up for renewal this month. This legislation was initially enacted as a supposedly temporary measure in the wake of 9-11, but portions of it have been made permanent, and the remaining provisions have been extended four times and are [...]