Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 24/01/2012

When we said yesterday that a bit of internet history was made last week, with the online blackout and the all the protests against SOPA and PIPA, we really meant it. After all, it was the first time social media and the “Internet People” changed the U.S Congress’ mind, showing that, despite the entertainment industry’s reasons, this specific piece of legislation simply wasn’t good enough. Today’s infographics brought by Geek Tyrant, Pro Publica, Visual.ly, Luming Consulting and American Censorship.

A Technical Examination of SOPA and PIPA

SOPA and the Film Industry

SOPA Opera Update: Opposition Surges

STOP SOPA

American Censorship Day by the numbers

Today’s video pick:

Social Media Marketing

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This story written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso works as an Independent Content Curator and Marketing/Branding Consultant, with a confessed addiction for everything web 2.0, besides design, photography, arts and green politics, with which he fills his Twitter stream (@TSSVeloso). He lives in Brazil, and started the Visual Loop project as a way of collecting and sharing the immensity of infographics and other forms of data-visualization spread throughout the internet.