Special interests don't want you to know what's really going on

On the Internet piracy flap Glenn Reynolds says, "Generally, if it’s an outright battle between special interests and the public, the special interests lose. Which is why everything is designed to minimize the likelihood of the public figuring out what’s going on until it’s too late."

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Leave the internet alone

Huge protest caused Congress to put off the internet piracy bill. Good. To see what the "uprising" was all about see below:

Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer protection and privacy advocacy group, said Google and Facebook and their supporters "have delivered a powerful blow to the Hollywood lobby." He predicted a compromise that doesn't include what many see as overreaching provisions in the current legislation.

"It's been framed as an Internet freedom issue, but at the end of the day it will be decided on the narrow interests of the old and new media companies," he said. The big questions involve who should or shouldn't pay - or be paid - for Internet content.

SOPA's future uncertain, maybe dead

The internet privacy bill (SOPA) is all but dead. Let's hope it stays that way.