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I am not able to find any copyright violations. American Opportunity cannot censor a historic entry simply because the name was changed. Deleting the entire previous history of the organization is not a valid copyright name, even if the names "Free Congress Foundation" and "Free Congress Research and Education Foundation" are trademarked or copyrighted.] ( talk) 22:13, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
I have plenty of citations, but will stop editing and await further information regarding the challenge to the page. ( talk) 22:20, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
No need to have two separate articles for what is essentially the same organization. — cnzx 00:04, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
The problem is that American Opportunity is essentially a new organization with a different agenda that took the old organization (the Free Congress Foundation), and took its assets, corporate filings, and tax status and then tried to hide its past. I think in fairness to both organization, defunct and ongoing, that the best result for an encyclopedia is to recognize this and set up a disambiguation page. Chip.berlet ( talk) 17:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
I agree with Chip Berlet. The two organizations are related but not the same thing, and this should be documented. They are not one and the same. -- Jobrot ( talk)
OK, I plan to create a disambiguation page that points to the old Free Congress Foundation page after noting that the new name for the continuation of FCF is American Opportunity Any objections? Chip.berlet ( talk) 21:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Much of the text lacks inline citations so I tagged the article. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 01:40, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Just a note that the old URL for this organization (now renamed) http://freecongress.org still functions (after some experimentation to figure out its exact form). Using an 'https' prefix fails on that, and that can cause substantial confusion as using it results in a hang waiting for a nonexistent web page to load. I added this above URL ( http://freecongress.org) to the WikiData entry, but for safety (against a possible WikiData problem) I just used the new official website URL for American Opportunity. And YES, the old URL (when used precisely as above) does redirect to the official website for American Opportunity as one would hope it should, but again for safety it might be best to not specify the old URL (from either WikiData or otherwise) in case of either an error with its prefix or it just going away entirely. L.Smithfield ( talk) 06:44, 27 April 2023 (UTC)