Laurence H. Tribe, the noted First Amendment lawyer, said in an open letter on the Web that SOPA would "undermine the openness and free exchange of information at the heart of the Internet.
"I think they're attempting to undermine its openness and its freedom and its ability to dissent, to be different.
This week advocacy and consumer groups warned that AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth would undermine the openness of the internet.Mr Whitacre insists that the merger does not threaten net neutrality, and neither do his proposed "fast lanes" for favoured content.
Similarly, the philosophical focus after Descartes and Kant is on the autonomous self as the basis for knowledge, but the authors explore how the idea of a human subject able to bestow meaning on inert objects winds up undermining our openness to the world.
His greatest challenge may lie in how to achieve reform without undermining the openness, appetite for change, work ethic, self-reliance and can-do optimism that any immigrant to these shores, and particularly a European one, recognizes as distinctively and essentially American.
The Day the Internet Went Dark was the final stand in a campaign that forced Congress to rethink its secretive and cynical attempt to undermine freedom and openness on the net.
But he added that such openness could undermine Russian pride in its nuclear achievements during the cold war.
Lord Kerr, the former UK diplomat credited with writing article 50, this week urged ministers to shed some of its obsession with secrecy, saying he could not understand why they believed openness would undermine their negotiating stance.
Nonetheless, he noted, post-9/11 policy developments have undermined principles of openness, due process, and equal protection.
