The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests
against the US government's surveillance of internet activity, a
practice recently exposed by a former contractor for the National
Security Agency.
Websites such as Reddit and Mozilla supported a campaign in
cities across the United States to "Restore the Fourth" - a reference to
the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against
unlawful search and seizure.
"Happy 4th of July! Immediately stop your unconstitutional spying on the world's internet users -- The People."
The home page of the website Boing Boing, for example,
displayed the following message to the NSA: "Happy 4th of July!
Immediately stop your unconstitutional spying on the world's internet
users -- The People."
The protest comes as the United States celebrates its Independence Day holiday.
By early afternoon, crowds of more than 400 had gathered in
New York City and Washington, DC, the organisers said. They estimate the
total turnout will be more than 10,000 nationwide.
The NSA, on its own website, said: "NSA does not object to
any lawful, peaceful protest. NSA and its employees work diligently and
lawfully every day, around the clock, to protect the nation and its
people."
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been charged with
espionage after disclosing the agency's surveillance programs. He has
spent more than a week in a Moscow airport seeking a country that would
grant him asylum.
The online protest was launched by the Internet Defense
League, a network of more than 30,000 websites and internet users whose
goal is to protest attempts to curtail the freedom of the Web.
Evan Greer, a spokesman for the IDL, said nearly 13,500
Twitter users had taken part in a so-called thunderclap, in which they
all tweeted the same or similar message at the same time to their more
than 9 million followers.
smh.com.au 5 July 2013
All part of the global agenda to monitor and ultimately control the movements of the every single person on the planet
The agenda is worse than that of Nazi occupied Germany.
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