Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18

by MattRogish on 1/13/2012, 5:16 PM with 20 comments
  • by tristan_louis on 1/13/2012, 9:28 PM

    I know it sounds crazy but ycombinator is based on the valley. Barbara Boxer is a co-sponsor of PIPA and Dianne Feinstein supports it too.

    Does the New York tech scene have to do all the heavy lifting or could we have similar protest in California on the 18th?

    Office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer 70 Washington Street, Suite 203 Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 286-8537

    or

    Office of U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein One Post Street, Suite 2450 San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 393-0707

    Hopefully, people in the valley can join New Yorkers in their opposition of this bill.

  • by sudonim on 1/13/2012, 5:25 PM

    Everyone from my office will be attending this. I'm curious to see if a mob of tech nerds will be taken more seriously by the powers that be than occupy wall street people.

  • by sethbannon on 1/13/2012, 7:18 PM

    While also anti-SOPA, this rally is primarily aimed at PIPA (the Senate version of the bill), which has been getting a free pass. Can you change the title to reflect this?

  • by tocomment on 1/13/2012, 8:00 PM

    Is there anything like this for the DC area?

  • by gerggerg on 1/13/2012, 5:24 PM

    Why that date and what will we be doing?

  • by coolrhymes on 1/13/2012, 6:29 PM

    i am attending this. i dont think congress/senate has any clue what this will really do. i bet those guys are still on IE5