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Aaron
Swartz
The Day We Fight Back
Worldwide Day of
Activism
Feb. 11, 2014
Dear Users of the Internet,
In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship
legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. A year ago this month
one of that movement’s leaders, Aaron Swartz, tragically passed away.
Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the
Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass
surveillance.
If Aaron were alive, he’d be on the front lines, fighting
against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every
digital action.
Now, on the eve of the anniversary of Aaron’s passing, and in
celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA that he helped make possible, we
are announcing a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this
February 11th.
The Day We Fight Back
The US Government Murdered Aaron Swartz.
Aaron Swartz. The true fighter against tyranny in the U.S. By Norman Bliss,
Political Activist
Aaron Swartz Documentary Clip Reveals
Activist’s Thoughts on NSA, Pushes Day of Action
One year after Internet activist Aaron Swartz’s death, a group
of activists and online platforms are uniting for a day of activism against the
National Security Agency’s surveillance tactics.
At the time of his death last Jan. 11, Swartz was facing up to
50 years in prison for downloading academic journal articles at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, allegedly pursuing his goal of opening access.
In a clip provided to The Huffington Post from the upcoming
documentary, “The Internet’s Own Boy,” Swartz reflects on the NSA in an
interview from 2012, finding the scope of the agency’s activities “scary” and
saying, “It is shocking to think that the accountability is so lax that they
don’t even have sort of basic statistics about how big the spying program is.
If the answer is, ‘Oh, we’re spying on so many people we can’t possibly even
count them,’ then that’s an awful lot of people.”
The NSA’s programs came under even more scrutiny since the
interview, after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents that
revealed the agency’s wide range of surveillance.
President Barack Obama will address NSA surveillance programs on
Jan. 17. The Associated Press reports that Obama “is expected to announce curbs
on U.S. spying on friendly foreign leaders. He’s also seriously considering a
plan that would strip the NSA of its ability to store phone record data from
millions of Americans.”
The documentary clip encourages viewers to “join the fight
against mass suspicion less surveillance” during a worldwide day of activism
Feb. 11 dubbed “The Day We Fight Back.” The protest also will celebrate the
Stop Online Piracy Act’s failure two years ago, a battle aided by Swartz.
Aaron Swartz Documentary Clip Reveals Activist’s Thoughts On
NSA, Pushes Day Of Action
Aaron
Swartz – SOPA and The Day We Fight Back
Aaron
Swartz. The true fighter against tyranny in the U.S.
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