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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and others plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Jul 2, 2013 9:40 AM
A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency.
As part of the Restore the Fourth campaign, many website members of the 30,000-member Internet Defense League plan to display a protest of NSA surveillance and the text of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Websites participating include Reddit, where Restore the Fourth originated, WordPress, 4chan, Mozilla, Fark, and Cheezburger.com. Organizers of Restore the Fourth are also planning live protests in dozens of U.S. cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta.
"How long do we expect rational people to accept using terrorism to justify and excuse endless executive and state power?" actor John Cusack said during a press conference announcing the protests. "Why are so many in our government, our press, our intellectual class afraid of an informed public?"
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FSogol
(45,555 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Do you actually AGREE with this quote from Orwell's 1984? Do you think this is what the Democratic Party should stand for?
FSogol
(45,555 posts)and no, I don't think the Democratic Party is evil or obsessed with power. If I did, I sure as heck won't hang around DU.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Thank you.
frylock
(34,825 posts)no, really. shut the fuck up or rand paul becomes president. well played. never seen that before. clap-clap.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)But one well placed idiot can get everyone up in arms...
This is going to turn out to be the biggest "snowjob" in history.
FirstLight
(13,366 posts)(whatever the Rand Paul connection is, I could care less...this is not about specific politicians)
I read the article, signed up on the site and am now subscribed to the newsletter for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
As a Journalist, I am taking steps to ensure my own information is secure. And I am NOT okay with what they call the Media in this country, they are no more than state-run lackeys doing Press Releases for the Govt.
NO MORE
i dunno, but today I am fired up, posting all kinds of this rebellious shit...gonna get myself red-flagged someday for sure for being such a vocal lady...
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)DU should be doing this.