Web freedom groups criticize state attorney general for Goliath action

The same groups that brought down the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seem to be turning their attention to the recent Goliath news.

On the heels of Google's lawsuit against the Mississippi attorney general, a coalition of 13 advocacy groups has turned its attention to the recent actions against Google, and is issuing a letter criticizing Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's role in the Motion Picture Association of America program known as Project Goliath. AG Hood has already called for a "time out" in the ongoing legal battle, but judging by the letter, many web freedom groups are unimpressed. While Hood's investigations were limited to Google as a company, the group called out the new push for site-blocking powers as a bid to resurrect SOPA by other means. "SOPA was a bad idea at the federal level," the letter concludes, "and any SOPA revival on a state level is an equally bad idea."