Reddit Co-Founder Urges CISPA Fight [Video]
“I’m hoping all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter. Their users’ privacy matters,” Ohanian said in the video. “And no legislation like CISPA should take that away.”
Activists Get Solitary Confinement for Remaining Silent [Video]
In September 2012, KteeO and her colleague, Matthew Duran, were imprisoned and sent to solitary confinement at Seattle Federal Detention Center for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury
Internet Freedom Activists Launch Week of Protest Against Anti-Hacking Law
Digital liberties activists are ginning up support for their efforts to reform a law that they say could potentially turns millions of Americans into criminals
Why We Must Keep Fighting for the Freedom of the Internet
We’re all used to changing society over a weekend of coding. But changing the values of society takes much, much longer than that, and it requires all of us to keep patiently explaining what we understand to those who don’t
Russia Raids Moscow Amnesty International Office
Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to stifle dissent
Topless Activists Protest Election of New Pope
Police wrestled two topless women to the ground during a brief protest in St Peter’s Square outside the Vatican on Tuesday after cardinals withdrew into the Sistine Chapel to begin the process of electing a new pope
Activists Launch ‘Bread for Syria’ Campaign in the U.K.
A group of Arab activists along with the Charity Commission organization in Britain launched a new campaign called “Our Bread for Syria” in an attempt to aid the Syrian people afflicted by the unrest that hit their country following Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on anti-regime protests
ACLU Launches National Investigation Into Police Militarization
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local police agencies requesting information about their SWAT teams
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