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Comment: One year after SOPA, Silicon Valley feels its political muscle

By Mike Swift and Amy Miller ( January 18, 2013, 23:28 GMT | Comment) -- One year after mass protests thwarted plans to give U.S. law enforcement significant new powers to take down content accused of infringing copyright through the Stop Online Piracy Act, many in Silicon Valley have acquired a sense of clout in their relationship to lawmakers and regulators in the nation’s capital, even as Washington grows ever more interested in regulating an internet that is increasingly central to the nation’s economy.San Francisco – One year after a massive grassroots internet protest over the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, Washington, D.C. is no longer a distant, forgettable abstraction for many in Silicon Valley....

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