Posted on 05/29/2015 3:49:49 PM PDT by Enlightened1
More than 10,000 websites blocked users from computers in Congress on Friday, in a demonstration against any possible re-authorization of NSA surveillance powers.
“This is a blackout,” read the site to which computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”
“Right now the code affects only visitors from Congress, we’re willing to keep it up,” said Holmes Wilson, a co-founder of Fight for the Future, the group which wrote the code and is leading the online protest.
The redirect site also includes semi-nude, sometimes explicit photos submitted by people, under the heading: “NSA spying makes me feel naked.”
“We’ll keep blocking sites until either the USA Freedom Act is either dramatically improved or dead, or until the Patriot Act provisions have sunset,” Wilson said, referring to the debate in Congress over whether to let some of the NSA’s full surveillance powers expire on 1 June or to pass a bill, called the USA Freedom Act, that eliminates or changes some of those powers.
Wilson said the group does not support the USA Freedom Act in its current incarnation, and wants Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which the NSA and FBI use to collect massive amounts of Americans’ data, to expire.
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Was Free Republic blocked? Of all the sites that Congress
should read, it’s FR.
I think just government sites.
Being that it’s Friday after Memorial Day.
I bet hardly anyone noticed since probably most of government workers were off today.
Excellent. I hope more follow suit promptly.
Probably won’t do anything but I like the annoyance factor.
Wow, 10k websites just moved ahead of the eyes on FR.
If you want their absolute attention, block Congressional access to online porn.
Yikes. Protest moves to the Internet. This could be a really bad thing if lots of sites decide to band together to protest whatever the protest du jour is. Imagine Amazon, Google, Walmart, HSN, Target, etc. all banding together to protest something and going dark. Imagine the impact on commerce. Or all the banks online go dark. Or PayPal and Bill Me Later, or all the real estate sites like Zillow, etc. decide to protest some issue or the other. What a mess. Hope this doesn’t become a fad or serious problem in the future. Be careful what you are praising now because it may suit your political viewpoint, as the next protest on-line might not.
Imagine all the dating sites going dark...
What would Bill Clinton do??
More than 10,000 websites ‘blackout’ Congress in protest of NSA surveillance laws
Translation There are 10,000 sites run by ignorant boobs.
“Imagine all the dating sites going dark...
What would Bill Clinton do??”
LOL. That’s funny.
I didn’t know i could do that. It should be permanent. Just keep blocking internet stuff from the govt.
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