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Deutsch: EDRi unterstützt die Proteste gegen US-Netzsperrengesetze

EDRi supports today's black-out campaign against SOPA and PIPA and endorses the positions of the human rights international community in criticizing the two draft normative acts from US.

Human rights community speaks out on PROTECT IP Act (16.01.2012)
https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/human-rights-comm...

Human rights community against SOPA (15.11.2011)
http://www.edri.org/files/sopa_civilsociety_15Nov_2011.pdf

More details on the blackout campaign https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/january-18-internet-wide-protest...
https://blacklist.eff.org/
http://sopastrike.com/