More than 6,000 websites, including Reddit, Tumblr, Mozilla, are taking part in an online protest against government surveillance.
The action marks two years since website blackouts against SOPA and PIPA and commemorates Aaron Swartz’s death.
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: against 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.
The February 11 online protest, going by the title ‘The Day We Fight Back’, is supposed to see around 6, 200 websites each host a large banner at the top reading
“Dear internet, we’re sick of complaining about the NSA. We want new laws that curtail online surveillance.”