Web-Savvy Lawmakers Call for Internet Bill of Rights
Mobilizing online community could cut out Washington middlemen
The Internet's newly anointed congressional Internet deities, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called during this Monday morning's Personal Democracy Forum in New York for Congress and the Internet community to adopt a digital bill of rights. Issa and Wyden helped to shut down the advancement of the Stop Online Piracy Act early this year.
Since the Internet mobilized on Jan. 18 to voice its collective opposition to SOPA, the Internet community and its defenders in Congress have been looking at ways to use the Web to change the power structure in Washington, D.C.
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