<story><title>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress  </title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa</url><text>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowmaker</author><text>I noticed Vint Cerf specified &quot;signing as private citizen&quot;.  Does anyone know why Google tied his hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obtu</author><text>Because this one is the letter from internet engineers. Google had to enter the lobbying game, but the view point of individuals should be more important to a society than the “money as free speech” of corporations.</text></comment>
<story><title>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress  </title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa</url><text>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowmaker</author><text>I noticed Vint Cerf specified &quot;signing as private citizen&quot;.  Does anyone know why Google tied his hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/104233435224873922474/posts/AsjeBDMbA2L&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://plus.google.com/104233435224873922474/posts/AsjeBDMb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t think they did (or would.)</text></comment>