Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and others plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance

[DeSwiss]

PCWorld
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]

1. Unrec. Here's Rand Paul thanking everyone for their support of his campaign

[Electric Monk]

5. If I found out that Rand likes puppies, should I start kicking puppies to not be like him?

Do you actually AGREE with this quote from Orwell's 1984? Do you think this is what the Democratic Party should stand for?

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

[FSogol]

6. Make sure you sign up for Paul's fundraising emails.

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]

8. My sentiments as well.

Thank you.

[frylock]

9. compelling argument..

no, really. shut the fuck up or rand paul becomes president. well played. never seen that before. clap-clap.

[snooper2]

2. 117K oversea targets

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]

3. I am all over this

(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]

4. I love your FU Smiley!!! :-D n/t

[Nanjing to Seoul]

7. This is why I only use Mozilla.

[woo me with science]

10. K&R

DU should be doing this.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. We can hear you now.