Live Tweeting From the NYC SOPA and PIPA Protest

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:33

The SOPA protest is moving from the Internet to the streets. The NY Tech Meetup community, an organization of more than 20,000 “geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc.,” sent out an unprecedented emergency email last week, in which they lit the proverbial geek batsignal:

“Join us to stop SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act ) and PIPA (Protect IP Act ),” read the email.

The group of...

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