troduced in the US House of Representatives and the
US Senate, respectively, to curtail copyright infringement.  The bill was
controversial because there were concerns the bill limited free speech
rights.  ProPublica, the independent and non-profit news organization,
compiled this dataset to compare the stance of legislators towards the
bills with the amount of campaign funds that they received from groups
considered to be supportive of or in opposition to the legislation.
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