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Companies Web Founders Stop Sopa / Pipa More and more groups continue to voice their opposition to SOPA and PIPA, as rogue website STOP legislation continues SOPA / PIPA through Congress. Those who have voiced concerns include: COMPANIES AOL Mozilla eBay OpenDNS Etsy PayPal Facebook Twitter foursquare Wikimedia Foundation Google Yahoo! IAC Zynga Game Network LinkedIn WEB FOUNDERS Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Hunch and Andreessen Horowitz David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google Reid HoFFman, co-founder of LinkedIn Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square Arianna HuFFington, co-founder of Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and The Huffington Post Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube Biz Stone, co-founder of Obvious Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet and Twitter Archive and co-founder of Alexa Internet Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal and the Wikimedia Foundation Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS, NON-PROFITS, ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS AND THINK-TANKS ACLU Electronic Frontier Foundation American Association oF Law Libraries Fight For the Future American Library Association Freedom House American Society oF News Editors Future oF Music Coalition Americans For Job Security Institute For Intellectual Property & Association oF College and Social Justice, Inc. Research Libraries Internet Society (ISOC) Association oF Research Libraries Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Benetech Group (MAAWG) Brookings Institute Library Copyright Alliance Center for Democracy & Technology Media Access Project Competitive Enterprise Institute MoveOn Consumer Federation oF America National Association oF the DeaF Consumers Union New America Foundation’s Open Creators' Freedom Project Technology Initiative Demand Progress PPF (Open Congress) Don't Censor the Net Public Interest Registry EDUCAUSE Public Knowledge SaveHosting.org TechFreedom Special Libraries Association U.S. PIRG: The Federation oF StopBadware State PIRGs U.S. Student Association Tea Party Patriots INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS Computer & Communications Industry Information Technology Industry Council Association NetCoalition.com Consumer Electronics Association TechAmerica Engine Advocacy TechNet Entertainment Consumers Association Writers Guild oF America-West WEBSITES AND ONLINE SERVICES 4chan Kickstarter Boing Boing MetaFilter Creative Commons O'Reilly Radar Daily Kos Reddit Disqus Techdirt Grooveshark Torrentfreak Hype Machine Tumblr Irregular Times CYBERSECURITY AND ENGINEERS Sandia National Laboratories Dan Kaminsky, DKH Steve Crocker, Shinkuro, Inc. Danny McPherson, Verisign, Inc. David Dagon, Georgia Tech Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES 10com (European Union) European Digital Rights (EDRi) (Association Access of 27 digital rights groups From around AGEIA DENSI (Argentina) Europe) ahumanright.org Forum InFormatikerInnen Für Frieden und Association For Progressive gesellschaFtliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIFF) Communications (APC) (Germany) Bits oF Freedom (The Netherlands) Free Network Foundation Center For Media Justice Free Press Center For Rural Strategies Free SoFtware Foundation Center for Technology and Society Global Network Initiative (CTS/FGV) (Brazil) Global Partners & Associates Centre for Internet and Society (India) GreenNet (England) Church of Sweden Human Rights First Communication Is Your Right! Human Rights Watch Computer Professionals for Social Index on Censorship Responsibility Instituto NupeF (Brazil) Consumers International Internet Democracy Project (India) Derechos Digitales (Chile) Internews Digital Rights Ireland Karisma (Colombia) Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. (Germany) La Quadrature du Net (France) Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi) May First/People Link MobileActive.org Reporters Without Borders / Reporters Net Users' Rights Protection Association sans Frontières (NURPA) (Belgium) The Julia Group (Sweden) Open Rights Group (ORG) (UK) The Public Sphere Project Open Spectrum Alliance Virtual Activism Palante Technology Cooperative wlan slovenija (Slovenia) ENTREPRENEURS, FOUNDERS CEOs, AND EXECUTIVES Jonathan Abrams Nuzzel, Founders Den, Matthew Blumberg, MovieFone, Socializr, Friendster, HotLinks ReturnPath Asheesh Advani, Covestor, Virgin Money Nic Borg, Edmodo USA, CircleLending Bruce Bower, Plastic Jungle, Blackhawk David Albert, Hackruiter Network, Reactrix, Soliloquy Learning, Will Aldrich, SurveyMonkey, TripIt, Yahoo ZapMe! Corporation Courtland Allen, Syphir, Tyrant Josh Buckley, MinoMonsters Lloyd Armbrust, OwnLocal.com John Buckman, Lyris, Magnatune, Jean Aw, NOTCOT Inc. BookMoochJustin Cannon Lingt Language, Joshua Baer, Capital Factory, OtherInbox, EveryArt UnsubCentral, SKYLIST Justin Cannon, Lingt Language, EveryArt Andy Baio, Upcoming, Kickstarter Teck Chia, OpenAppMkt, Omigosh LLC, Edward Baker, Friend.ly Gabbly.com David Barrett, Expensify Bill Clerico, WePay Jonathan Baudanza, beatlab.com, Rupture Michael Clouser, iLoding, Market Diligence, Katia Beauchamp, Birchbox CEO Research, New Era Strategies Idan Beck, Incident Technologies Zach Coelius, Triggit, Votes For Students, Justin Beck, PerBlue Coelius Enterprises Matthew Bellows, Yesware Inc., WGR John Collison, Stripe Media Ben Congleton, Olark, Nethernet David Berger, XL Marketing, Caridian Dave Copps, PureDiscovery, Engenium Marketing Labs Jon Crawford, Storenvy Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, Hackruiter Dennis Crowley, Foursquare, Dodgeball Ted Blackman, Course Zero Automation, L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal and Motion Arcade Down Jones Angus Davis, Swipely, Tellme Eva Ho, Factual, Navigating Cancer, Applied Eric DeMenthon, PadMapper.com Semantics Steve DeWald, Proper Suit, Data Jason Huggins, Blu Zone Marketplace, Maggwire Joichi Ito, Neoteny, Digital Garage Chad Dickerson, Etsy Ben Ifeld, Macer Media Suhail Doshi, Mixpanel Jason Jacobs, FitnessKeeper Natalie Downe, Lanyrd Inc. Daniel James, Three Rings Design Nick DucoFF, Infochimps David Jilk, Standing Cloud, eCortex, Xaffire JenniFer Dulski, The Dealmap Noah Kagan, Appsumo, GetGambit Rod Ebrahimi, ReadyForZero, DirectHost Bill Kallman, Scayl, Varolii Chas Edwards, Luminate, Digg, Federated Jon Karl, iovation, ieLogic Media, MySimon Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Skillshare Dale Emmons, Vidmakr Bryan Kennedy, Sincerely.com, AppNinjas, David Federlein, Fowlsound Productions, Xobni, Pairwise Soapbox Coffee, Inc. Derek Kerton, Kerton Group, Telecom Mark Fletcher, ONElist, Bloglines Council of Silicon Valley Andrew Fong, Kirkland North Drew Kese, Ecount, Orocast Tom Frangione, Simply Continuous, Telphia David Kidder, Clickable, SmartRay Network, Brian Frank, Live Colony THINK New Ideas, Net-X Ken Fromm, Vivid Studios, Loomia, Iron.io Eric Koger, ModCloth Nasser Gaemi, BigDates, ASAM Kitty Kolding, elicit, House Party, Jupiter International Brian Krausz, GazeHawk Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo, SocialThing Pete Koomen, Optimizely, CarrotSticks Zachary Garbow, Funeral Innovations Amit Kumar, Socialscope Jud Gardner, Comprehend Systems Ryan Lackey, HavenCo, Blue Iraq, David Gibbs, High Speed Access Corp, Cryptoseal Darwin Networks, Nomad Innovations Jeff Lawson, Twilio, Nine Star, Stubhub, Christopher Golda, BackType Versity Eyal Goldwerger, TargetSpot, XMPie, Peter Lehrman, AxialMarket, Gerson WhenU, GoCargo Lehrman Group Jude Gomila, Heyzap Michael Levit, Bluelight.com, Redbooth, Jeremy Gordon, Department of Behavior Spigot, Founders Den and Logic, Secret Level, MagicArts Thede Loder, Boxbe, Leverage Information Steve Greenwood, drop.io Systems James Gross, Percolate, Federated Media Marissa Louie, Ness Computing, HeroEX, Sean Grove, Bushido, Inc. AD-Village Anupam Gupta, Mixpo Michael Lewis, Stellar Semiconductor, Mike Hagan, LifeShield, Verticalnet, Cryptic Studios Nutrisystem Eric Marcoullier, OneTrueFan, Gnip, Tony Haile, Chartbeat, Chi.mp MyBlogLog, IGN Jared Hansen, Breezy Michael Masnick, Floor64 Scott Heiferman, Meetup, Fotolog Jordan Mendelson, SeatMe, Heavy Electrons, SNOCAP, Web Services Inc Dwight Merriman, DoubleClick, Oliver Roup, VigLink BusinessInsider, Gilt Groupe, 10gen Slava Rubin, IndieGoGo Scott Milliken, MixRank.com David Rusenko, Weebly Dave Morgan, Simulmedia, TACODA, Real Arram Sabeti, ZeroCater Media Eric Schmidt, Google Zac Morris, Caffeinated Mind Inc. 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