Wikipedia

The Day We Fight Back: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
→‎Reddit "Ask Me Anything": In the interests in peace, I propose a shorter quote of the most punchy bit. But under all circumstances KEEP THE CITATIONS. That should be a no brainer.
Undid revision 597885836 by Wnt (talk) This does not address my concerns. Please participate in the talk page discussion.
Line 89:
Comparing the opposition to surveillance with the previous defeat of SOPA, in which Demand Progress and Aaron Swartz had been deeply involved, the organizers took to Reddit and called for a month of activities culminating in the February 11 "day of action"<ref name="reddit20140110">{{cite web |url=http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1uw05k/aaron_swartz_passed_away_a_year_ago_tomorrow_we/ |title=Aaron Swartz passed away a year ago tomorrow. We are Cory Doctorow, Brian Knappenberger, Peter Eckersley (EFF), and David Segal (Demand Progress) here to talk about Aaron and a protest we're organizing on 02/11 in his honor. Ask us anything |work=Reddit.com |first1=Cory |last1=Doctorow |first2=Brian |last2=Knappenberger |first3=Peter |last3=Eckersley |first4=David |last4=Segal |date=January 10, 2014}}</ref><ref name=WashingtonTimes>{{cite web|last=Wolfgang|first=Ben|title=Obama faces ‘day of action’ to protest NSA reforms|url=http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/16/obama-faces-day-action-protest-nsa-reforms/|work=Washington Times|accessdate=10 February 2014}}</ref> In an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) discussion held on January 10, several organizers announced the action and fielded user questions, saying their purpose was to answer questions "about Aaron and a protest we're organizing on 02/11 in his honor". Those participating were [[Cory Doctorow]] of [[BoingBoing]]; Brian Knappenberger, who made the films ''The Internet's Own Boy'', a documentary about Aaron Swartz, and ''[[We Are Legion]]'', a film about the hacker group "Anonymous"; [[David Segal (politician)|David Segal]], co-founder of [[Demand Progress]]; Peter Eckersley of [[Electronic Frontier Foundation|EFF]]; and Sina Khanifar, website developer for "The Day we Fight Back" and several other activist projects. Doctorow and Eckersley indicated they had been close friends of Swartz.
 
On February 11, organizers again held an AMA,<ref name=Motherboard>{{cite web|last=Stuckey|first=Daniel|title=How an Anti-NSA Campaign Took Over the Internet|url=http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-an-anti-nsa-campaign-took-over-the-internet|work=Motherboard|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref> beginning with a statement
that the NSA

, GCHQ and others "have broken laws and twisted legal interpretations to create an infrastructure of mass surveillance of all of us online. This creates a dark form of censorship as people become afraid to speak freely -- and it's one that undermines our security and our right to privacy as well."<ref name=AMA2>{{cite web|last=Segal|first=David|title=We are "The Day We Fight Back" Organizers, Ask Us Anything|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xm761/we_are_the_day_we_fight_back_organizers_ask_us/|work=Ask Me Anything|publisher=Reddit}}</ref>
 
===Inspiration from Aaron Swartz ===
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_We_Fight_Back"