14 DAY TRIAL // Over 5,000 sites will start protesting against NSA’s mass surveillance activities in just a few hours.
As part of the ongoing civil protests against the National Security Agency’s constant privacy violation policy, over 5,000 sites will black out, similarly to the SOPA protests a few years ago.
“In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. Today we face another critical threat, one that again undermines the Internet and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance,” reads a message on the site.
“In celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA two years ago, and in memory of one of its leaders, Aaron Swartz, we are planning a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this February 11th.”
The sites that have signed on for the project will host banners urging people to call and email their Congress representatives to oppose the FISA Improvements Act and to support, instead, the USA Freedom Act, and enact protections for non-Americans.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU, Greenpeace, Freepress, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom for the Press Foundation, Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, Tumblr, Reddit, CREDO, and Fight for the Future are just a few of the organizations and companies that are supporting the protests.