Demand Progress

Demand Progress

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Formation	2010
Type	501(c)4 (sponsored by Sixteen Thirty Fund) and 501(c)(3) (sponsored by New Venture Fund)
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Civil liberties, anti-corporatocracy, and government reform advocacy
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island
Region served	Worldwide, most focus on U.S.
Membership	Approximately 2 million members, open enrollment via email
Executive director	David Segal[1]
Co-founder	Aaron Swartz[2]
Program director	David Moon
Website	demandprogress.org

Demand Progress is a US-based internet activist-related entity encompassing a 501(c)4 arm sponsored by the Sixteen Thirty Fund and a 501(c)(3) arm sponsored by the New Venture Fund. It specializes in online-intensive and other grassroots activism to support Internet freedom, civil liberties, transparency, and human rights, and in opposition to censorship and corporate control of government.^[3][4][5] The organization was founded through a petition in opposition to the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, sparking the movement that eventually defeated COICA's successor bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, two highly controversial pieces of United States legislation.^[6][7][8]

The organization has played key roles in forwarding the passage of net neutrality rules,^[9] blocking expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,^[10] under which co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted, and other key legislative efforts. Estimated membership numbers in early 2015 weigh in at over two million.^[11]