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.
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