It’s Not Over: The Verdict on Last Night’s Debate
Since launching this campaign 7 days ago, the people of Ireland have engaged with the Minister in good faith through public petition, open lobbying, frank meeting, media debate and an alternative SI. In return, Minister Sherlock last night entertained an outrageous sham debate in the Dáil, pretending to entertain the very real concerns of people [...]
Read MorePlay SOPA Bingo! The Dáil Debate Game
Get ready for tonight’s debate at 5:30 PM with SOPA Bingo: The Dáil Debate Game! You can watch this unprecedented event live on the Oireachtas website, and play along by downloading one of these bingo cards: SOPA Bingo Card #1 SOPA Bingo Card #2 SOPA Bingo Card #3 SOPA Bingo Card #4 You can also [...]
Read MoreStop SOPA Supplementary Briefing Document
In advance of today’s full Dáil debate, Stop SOPA Ireland has prepared a supplementary briefing document for legislators, providing 11 key points that address the most recent issues to be raised. Download the Supplementary Briefing Document (31 Jan)(V1.2, 158k PDF) Download the Primary Briefing Document (26 Jan, Updated 31 Jan) (V6.0, 142k PDF) Today’s Supplementary [...]
Read MoreStop SOPA Campaign Achieves Cross-Party Support
Support for the issues behind the stopSOPAireland.com petition is now a fully-cross-party movement, with FF leader Micheál Martin TD joining Fine Gael Cork East TD Tom Barry, the youth wing of the Labour Party, and independent TDs like Catherine Murphy and Stephen Donnelly in voicing serious concerns about the effects of the draft Statutory Instrument [...]
Read More51,376 Irish People Say No to SOPA
More data wrangling for your enjoyment, this time a look at what countries the more than 75,000 people to have signed the petition came from. This data is gathered from anonymised aggregate IP data, and shows the country of origin of 72,331 people who signed up to 3:20 PM on Monday, January 30th. An amazing 51,376 [...]
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