Sopa and pipa bills

• said they would not give the presidents reelection effort further financial support because of his opposition to key parts of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).
(Los Angeles Times)
• In the face of an Internet rebellion, both senators and members of the House of Representatives are backing away from two anti-piracy bills now making their way through Congress.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• In the face of an Internet rebellion, both senators and members of the House of Representatives are backing away from two anti-piracy bills now making their way through Congress.
(YAHOO!)
• In the first strike of its kind, thousands of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing shut down for up to 24 hours Wednesday to protest a pair of federal antipiracy bills that they said amounted to censorship of the Internet.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Several major websites fired the nuclear option in the battle over internet freedom Wednesday, each going dark in protest of the two bills, SOPA in the house and PIPA in the senate.
(msnbc.com)
• (gigaom.com) -- In the last 30 days, there has been a loud and clear backlash against two bills – SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). SOPA is the House version of the bill; PIPA is the Senate version of the bill.
(CNN Money)
• Mozilla and Reddit are censoring their own websites with black bars and blacked-out pages in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two online anti-piracy bills currently under consideration on Capitol Hill.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Many of these sites are using creative techniques to bring attention to the two bills – one called SOPA, the other PIPA – and making very clear their viewpoint on it. Before you panic, read our quick-and-dirty guide to these online protests.
(CNN (blog))
• The House of Representatives Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senates Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act have generated fierce opposition within the technology community.
(msnbc.com)