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Mass online protest coming = 1000's of websites closing

by HeySal
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The protest is called "The Day We Fight Back" - it's a protest against the Net being taken over......Not sure if it will be more extensive or smaller than the one against SOPA. Expect a lot of websites to be down on the 11th.

https://thedaywefightback.org/
  • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
    I really should keep up with these a little better...
    Feels like short notice because I wasn't paying attention.

    Oh well, it just means I have work to do tomorrow.
    Thanks for the heads-up!
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by MikeTucker View Post

      I really should keep up with these a little better...
      Feels like short notice because I wasn't paying attention.

      Oh well, it just means I have work to do tomorrow.
      Thanks for the heads-up!
      Mike - I'm not sure what's on with it either. I saw before some info that websites were closing down for the day - when I went to check out details, it looks like on the ground protests in several countries - about 8 in the US, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and one other country over there, don't remember which. So I'm not sure what is coming down. There's no apparent protests near me, and I don't know if the websites are actually going to be down or not.....I do believe the sites that signed on are closing. There's over 4,000 of them.

      Here's the press release on it. I guess they aren't shutting down, they're putting up banners, etc:

      https://thedaywefightback.org/press/
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    I didn't see Microsoft's, Google's, Facebook's, or Twitter's logos up there...
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    I don't want to seem negative about this, or maybe pessimistic is a better description, but isn't this protest kind of like tilting at windmills?

    The NSA is a genie that's been let out of its bottle. There isn't any putting it back in. The people that run the agency are just sitting back laughing their asses off at what I'm sure they see as the ineffectual whining of the sheep.

    I'll mention it on my sites, but I don't hold out much hope for it having any meaningful effect at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      I don't think this is a grass roots protest - it's a promotion to support a bill to limit NSA surveillance. I'm highly skeptical on this one.

      I don't agree with what is being done here. About a year ago I posted about the humongous data collection center being built in Utah....that center came online in 2013.

      NSA Utah Data Center - Serving Our Nation's Intelligence Community

      Connect the dots....huge data center built by the NSA....Snowden leaks the data collection practices a few months later....now the move is to disallow SOME of the practices of the NSA.

      A few years ago I read a book where the NSA was described as "outdated" - it was said to be jockeying for position as it had become a "stepchild" taking a back seat to the FBI and CIA after 9/11. It was underfunded, had reduced staffing and reduced influence. The book questioned why the NSA still existed and what purpose it served. Fast forward a few years and the NSA has found a new foothold in the data gathering area.

      The same people in D.C. who are shocked by the NSA data gathering - and proposing this bill to limit data collected.....were in power when the funds were approved for the NSA data gathering facility in Utah. They didn't have a problem with funding the huge banks of servers in Utah - did they think the servers would be filled with recipes?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        I don't think this is a grass roots protest - it's a promotion to support a bill to limit NSA surveillance. I'm highly skeptical on this one.
        Hmm, I didn't know much of that.

        So much (dis)information...
        Being an educated voter is a full-time job!
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          Being an educated voter is a full-time job!
          Agree - and not hardly worth it as there would only be about 6 of us all together...no clout.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

      I don't want to seem negative about this, or maybe pessimistic is a better description, but isn't this protest kind of like tilting at windmills?

      The NSA is a genie that's been let out of its bottle. There isn't any putting it back in. The people that run the agency are just sitting back laughing their asses off at what I'm sure they see as the ineffectual whining of the sheep.

      I'll mention it on my sites, but I don't hold out much hope for it having any meaningful effect at all.
      The idea is to get the word out about what is being done to us so people actually know about it, since our news is not a free press and not talking truthfully about it - when it's mentioned at all. You get enough people mad enough and it makes a difference. Remember the revolution or civil war?

      Right now there is a state (AZ comes to mind, but maybe WA? - but at least one) that is cutting off electric to NSA buildings. They can do so legally, but can't remember what law they are using - possibly aid to terrorist law? I'd have to find the article again. Anyhow - actions like that, along with petitions for legislation and impeachments/recalls/firings and shut down can have a way of wiping the smirk off a lot of faces.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
    It's more a statement to bring attention, I think...
    At some point, if enough people were paying attention to them,
    they will have to be more transparent.

    I'm not really against a certain amount of surveillance.
    In fact I'm probably far more comfortable than most everyone I know.
    But I still believe it should be strictly regulated and people who have
    access to the information should be held accountable for the way
    they use it.

    Sadly, the more likely result is that they are just going to try to
    make sure they don't have any more Snowdens any time soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author annie800
    Thanks for the heads up on this. I knew about the online piracy and signed a petion on that but I didn't know about NSA surveillance. We'll have to wait to see what happens.
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