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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 18 Jan 2012 
 
  Over 7000 sites, including Wikipedia and Google go black in protest of online piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 18 Jan 2012 
 
  Google, Wikipedia, Wired, Firefox blackout in protest against SOPA. 2 Senators pull support from the online piracy bills. 
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 17 Jan 2012 
 
  Wikipedia to shut down in protest of online piracy bills SOPA, PIPA.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 17 Jan 2012 
 
  Online piracy bill SOPA is "shelved" until further consensus in the House is reached. 
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 16 Jan 2012 
 
  Number of Chinese Web users hits 513 million marking a 12% growth from the previous year.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 16 Jan 2012 
 
  Facebook, Google come out against India's proposals for online content control.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 16 Jan 2012 
 
  Murdoch uses Twitter to take aim at Obama, Google over online piracy.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 16 Jan 2012 
 
  White House states that it will support no bill that reduces freedom of expression or threatens the "dynamic, innovative" character of the Internet.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 12 Jan 2012 
 
  Iran steps up its campaign to control the Internet within the country, introducing plans for a national "halal" intranet, implementing new monitoring policies in cybercafes, and sentencing two online bloggers to death at the beginning of the year.  
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   By: Matt Lavigueur Date: 12 Jan 2012 
 
  India's Delhi high court has stated that it could to block sites such as Google India and Facebook India if they fail to remove "objectionable content," referencing China's approach of online blocking.