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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Demand Progress</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><div class="infobox-caption">Official logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">2010</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">501(c)4 (sponsored by <a href="Sixteen_Thirty_Fund" title="Sixteen Thirty Fund">Sixteen Thirty Fund</a>) and 501(c)(3) (sponsored by <a href="New_Venture_Fund" title="New Venture Fund">New Venture Fund</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">Civil liberties, anti-corporatocracy, and government reform advocacy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data">Washington, D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Region served </div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide, most focus on U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Membership</th><td class="infobox-data">Approximately 2 million members, open enrollment via email</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Executive director</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="David_Segal_(politician)" title="David Segal (politician)">David Segal</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Co-founder</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Aaron Swartz</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Program director</div></th><td class="infobox-data">David Moon</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://demandprogress.org">demandprogress<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Demand Progress</b> is a US-based <a href="Internet_activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet activist">internet activist</a>-related entity encompassing a <a href="501(c)4" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)4">501(c)4</a> arm sponsored by the <a href="Sixteen_Thirty_Fund" title="Sixteen Thirty Fund">Sixteen Thirty Fund</a> and a <a href="501(c)(3)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> arm sponsored by the <a href="New_Venture_Fund" title="New Venture Fund">New Venture Fund</a>. It specializes in online-intensive and other grassroots activism to support <a href="Internet_freedom" title="Internet freedom">Internet freedom</a>, civil liberties, transparency, and <a href="Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a>, and in opposition to censorship and corporate control of government.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organization was founded through a petition in opposition to the <a href="Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act" title="Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act">Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act</a>, sparking the movement that eventually defeated COICA's successor bills, the <a href="Stop_Online_Piracy_Act" title="Stop Online Piracy Act">Stop Online Piracy Act</a> and the <a href="PROTECT_IP_Act" title="PROTECT IP Act">PROTECT IP Act</a>, two highly controversial pieces of United States legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The organization has played key roles in forwarding the passage of <a href="Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality">net neutrality</a> rules,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> blocking expansion of the <a href="Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act" title="Computer Fraud and Abuse Act">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> under which co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted, and other key legislative efforts.
Estimated membership in 2015 was over two million.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaigns">Campaigns</h2></div>
<p>Demand Progress has been involved in grassroots and direct lobbying campaigns in relation to the following efforts, among others:
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support">Support</h3></div>
<ul><li><a href="Whistleblower" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistleblower">Whistleblowing</a> and whistleblowers such as that of <a href="Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>; also opposing the <a href="U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC's</a> motions, which they themselves had admitted would stifle attempts at reporting wrongdoing.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Reform of the <a href="Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act" title="Computer Fraud and Abuse Act">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a>, via Aaron's Law and other means.</li>
<li>Support for Net Neutrality regulations, including co-leading the successful <a href="Internet_Slowdown_Day" title="Internet Slowdown Day">Internet Slowdown Day</a>.</li>
<li>Demand Progress has worked on various projects in tandem with numerous other similar organizations, such as <a href="Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, <a href="Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology" title="Center for Democracy and Technology">Center for Democracy and Technology</a>, the <a href="American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a>, <a href="Fight_for_the_Future" title="Fight for the Future">Fight for the Future</a>, et al.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition">Opposition</h3></div>
<ul><li>The <a href="Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> agreement, a sweeping trade agreement involving many countries around the <a href="Pacific_Rim" title="Pacific Rim">Pacific Rim</a> is being negotiated in secret as of July 2015.</li>
<li><a href="Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">President Obama's</a> support for appointing chief presidential <a href="Counter-terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a> supervisor <a href="John_O._Brennan" title="John O. Brennan">John O. Brennan</a> as a replacement for Secretary of State <a href="Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, on grounds of his association with political movements legitimizing <a href="Extrajudicial_punishment" title="Extrajudicial punishment">extrajudicial</a> killings, widely regarded by <a href="Civil_liberties" title="Civil liberties">civil libertarians</a> as <a href="Terrorism#State_sponsors" title="Terrorism">state-sponsored terrorism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act" title="Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act">COICA</a>, and its descendants <a href="PROTECT_IP_Act" title="PROTECT IP Act">PIPA</a> and <a href="Stop_Online_Piracy_Act" title="Stop Online Piracy Act">SOPA</a>. It played a critical role in the passage of net neutrality rules in 2014–15 and has engaged in dozens of other campaigns since its inception.</li>
<li><a href="Backscatter_X-ray" title="Backscatter X-ray">Backscatter X-ray</a> or "nude scanning devices" used by the <a href="Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration">Transportation Security Administration</a> (TSA).</li>
<li>Government-mandated <a href="Credential#Internet_ID" title="Credential">Internet IDs</a>, a law proposed by (then) Commerce Secretary <a href="Gary_Locke" title="Gary Locke">Gary Locke</a>, which raised skepticism over the efficacy and questionable effects on privacy.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Continuation of the <a href="Patriot_Act" title="Patriot Act">Patriot Act</a>, which was set to expire in 2013 but swiftly received large support in Senate for a 5-year <a href="PATRIOT_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="PATRIOT Act">reauthorization</a> in late 2012, only a few weeks before congressional terms expired.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Protecting_Cyberspace_as_a_National_Asset_Act" title="Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act">Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act</a>, in regard to the "kill switch" controversy which saw a public concern for executive power to "authorize emergency measures to protect the nation's most critical infrastructure if a cyber vulnerability is being exploited or is about to be exploited".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Debtor's_prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Debtor's prison">Modern debtors' prisons</a>, which have also found opposition from justices in the various states where they are still legal.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Censorship_of_Facebook" title="Censorship of Facebook">Censorship of Facebook</a>, including advocacy for an "anti-censorship policy" after Facebook deactivated <a href="Korryn_Gaines" class="mw-redirect" title="Korryn Gaines">Korryn Gaines</a>'s account<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>S. 978 (112th), an ill-defined bill which has the potential to allow <a href="Copyright_troll" title="Copyright troll">copyright trolls</a> to press charges against directors of online videos containing clips of <a href="Copyright" title="Copyright">copyrighted</a> media, and furthermore anyone who <a href="Hotlinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Hotlinking">embeds</a> said content into her own website.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>The <a href="Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Association of America">Motion Picture Association of America</a> and <a href="United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="United States Chamber of Commerce">United States Chamber of Commerce</a> have stated their opposition to Demand Progress on numerous occasions, mainly in respect to their stance on internet censorship.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Moon, Demand Progress' program director, responded to their statements, noting that the mere existence of their retort was proof that "the proponents are panicking."</li></ul>
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