Here's another SOPA supporter for you to boycott: Elsevier, publisher of many medical and scientific journals. You might also remember them from a 2009 scandal where Elsevier published fake journals as covert advertisements for pharmaceutical companies. Maybe it's time for scientists to consider not submitting papers to Elsevier journals or serving as peer reviewers for their journals. (Via The Quantum Pontiff and Jani Kotakoski)

  • http://twitter.com/Daveybot Dave Morris

    I’m fairly confused about what the National League of Cities is doing in there too, to be honest. They seem to be quite open to platforms for sharing information and creating opportunities between city leaders for networking – what have they got to gain from SOPA?

  • Another Kevin

    You can’t spell ELSEVIER without EVIL!

  • http://twitter.com/patrick_h_lauke patrick h. lauke

    Why so selective? Boycott ALL the companies there. Plenty of publishing houses (unsurprisingly) on that list…

  • http://twitter.com/robhogg68 Rob

    I don’t know about the National League of Cities, but some companies (such as Gibson Guitar) have demanded that they are take off the list. Seems that they expressed some generalised support for protection of “intellectual property rights”, and the US Chamber of Commerce then used this to suggest they supported SOPA. See:

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111222/16384317175/gibson-guitar-others-sopa-supporters-list-say-they-never-supported-bill.shtml