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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday We Fight Back .. Solidarity Thread
"The day we fight back" is a day of protest against mass surveillance. It asks legislators to oppose the FISA Improvements Act, support the USA Freedom Act, and enact protections for non-Americans.
https://thedaywefightback.org/international/
11 February 2014: around the globe more than 6000 websites, with user groups ranging from sub-niche to hundreds of millions, are blacked out today. The cause is serious: government surveillance overkill that compromises privacy, the rule of law, journalism and democracy itself.
The date has a deliberate resonance for citizens of the United States, who have discovered that expansive powers granted to intelligence agencies in the wake of the 11 September atrocities have metastasized in casual violation of the US Constitution to the degree that even authors of the Patriot Act have condemned. Two years on from success against Sopa and Pipa in the US this mobilised community is taking on the next front in the battle for digital rights.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/11/day-fight-back-against-internet-surveillance-scott-ludlam
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Today We Fight Back .. Solidarity Thread (Original Post)
Ichingcarpenter
Feb 2014
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. I am seeing that notice all over the web.
Guess it means I am going to the right sites!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)2. Do you see it on DU?
I have a couple of ad blocks on and don't see here nor on some other sites that said they support it, such as redditt.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)3. it is working.
Have not checked with an adblock ir noscript system, but it shows up on my cell phone. (I checked some blogs that hsve it) du does not show it.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. Nope..and my ad block is turned off on DU
Nothing showing..
shout out to Skinner et al.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)4. Hope it doesn't involve this
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)6. My thread also
but I doubt they would want to shut themselves down.
I thought it was odd it happened today.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)7. Oh yeah!
Put the uber-snooping spy bastards on notice. They are not going to compromise the privacy of every human being on the planet without suffering consequences!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)8. This needs a kick n/t
TBF
(32,118 posts)9. I signed it earlier today -
it's on Facebook
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)10. K&R
G_j
(40,372 posts)11. K&R!