Internet activist organization
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Formation 2010 Type 501(c)4 (sponsored by Sixteen Thirty Fund ) and 501(c)(3) (sponsored by New Venture Fund ) Legal status Active Purpose Civil liberties, anti-corporatocracy, and government reform advocacy Headquarters Washington, D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island Region served
Worldwide, most focus on U.S. Membership
Approximately 2 million members, open enrollment via email Executive director
David Segal [ 1] Co-founder
Aaron Swartz [ 2] Program director
David Moon Website demandprogress .org
Demand Progress is a US-based internet activist -related entity encompassing a 501(c)4 arm sponsored by the Sixteen Thirty Fund and a 501(c)(3) arm sponsored by the New Venture Fund . It specializes in online-intensive and other grassroots activism to support Internet freedom , civil liberties, transparency, and human rights , and in opposition to censorship and corporate control of government.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] The organization was founded through a petition in opposition to the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act , sparking the movement that eventually defeated COICA's successor bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act , two highly controversial pieces of United States legislation.[ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
The organization has played key roles in forwarding the passage of net neutrality rules,[ 9] blocking expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ,[ 10] under which co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted, and other key legislative efforts.
Estimated membership numbers in early 2015 weigh in at over two million.[ 11]
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^ "Demand Progress: The Team" . Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved Jan 12, 2013 .
^ Scola, Nancy (Dec 28, 2011). "Stopping the Stop Online Piracy Act – The Great Debate" . Reuters . Archived from the original on January 3, 2012. Retrieved Jan 13, 2013 .
^ "The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected" . The Economist . Jan 5, 2013. Retrieved Jan 13, 2013 .
^ Gross, Grant (Jan 18, 2012). "Groups Launch Campaign Against Lawmakers Supporting SOPA, PIPA" . PCWorld . Archived from the original on 2013-03-16. Retrieved Jan 14, 2013 .
^ Gross, Grant (Feb 6, 2012). "Who was really responsible for the SOPA protests?" . Techworld.com. Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved Jan 14, 2013 .
^ Daught, Gary F. (Jan 20, 2013). "Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Watch his 'How we stopped SOPA' keynote at F2C2012 ". Omega Alpha | Open Access. oaopenaccess.wordpress.com. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
^ Eckersley, Peter (Jan 12, 2013). "Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist" . Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved Jan 14, 2013 .
^ Fang, Lee (Feb 26, 2015). "Net Neutrality Is Here – Thanks to an Unprecedented Guerrilla Activism Campaign" . The Intercept . firstlook.org/theintercept. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
^ Grim, Ryan (April 12, 2013). "CFAA: Internet Activists Win First-Round Victory In Fight Over Anti-Hacking Law" . The Huffington Post. huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
^ "Demand Progress" . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA . Retrieved 2022-07-30 .