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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"ILLEGAL SPYING BELOW": Protestors Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA’s Utah Data Center
Plenty of nightmare surveillance theories surround the million-square-foot NSA facility opened last year in Bluffdale, Utah. Any locals driving by the gargantuan complex Friday morning saw something that may inspire new ones: A massive blimp hovering over the center, with the letters NSA printed on its side.
Activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace launched the 135-foot thermal airship early Friday morning to protest the agencys mass surveillance programs and to announce the launch of Stand Against Spying, a website that rates members of Congress on their support or opposition to NSA reform. The full message on the blimp reads NSA: Illegal Spying Below along with an arrow pointing downward and the Stand Against Spying URL.
We thought it would be fun to fly an airship around the Utah data center, which in many ways epitomizes the NSAs collect-it-all strategy, says Rainey Reitman, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We wanted to have a way to symbolize that our movement is getting quite confrontational with NSA surveillance in a visceral way.
The protestors launched the blimp, which is owned by Greenpeace and named the AE Bates after a longtime Greenpeace volunteer, at 6 a.m. to capitalize on calm weather. They flew it 1,000 feet over the Bluffdale facility.
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"ILLEGAL SPYING BELOW": Protestors Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA’s Utah Data Center (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2014
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Are they saying it is not okay for NSA to do surveillance but it is okay for them to do so.
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Are they saying it is not okay for NSA to do surveillance but it is okay for them to do so.
Greenpeace has used surveillance for a number of years, who wants to stop their surveillance?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Love it! Now I suppose this post makes me an NSA target. Well, fuck 'em.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)3. +100 nt