Reset the Net protests back encryption, privacy

Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Fightforthefuture.org, Resetthenet

(FFTF) June 5: "Reset the Net" campaign from the group Fight for the Future calls for increased Website encryption and privacy tools for users. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of the first Guardian story based on the leaks of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Activist Evangeline Lilly

(FFTF) Narrated and executive-produced by Evangeline Lilly. Produced by Mata Wata. Don't just watch, DO something: The U.S. government has turned the Internet into a systematic way of spying on us in our most private moments. Out of control government surveillance is a dangerous form of censorship. We are emboldened as we Fight for the Future and Demand Progress. Share this video. More

Net Neutrality? Gone. NDAA indefinite detention? Passed. NSA spying? (demanprogress.org)

VIDEO: "There were no good options": Bergdahl should get honorable discharge, says lawyer for deserter
 
Is Bowe Bergdahl a "deserter"? If freed POW left his post, he joins ranks of soldiers moved by conscience to object to US imperial wars of greed, hatred, and delusion

"Awaken to the Truth" with John Lear (audio)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; John Lear (thelivingmoon.com)

The truth is too hard to awaken to, so when someone blows the whistle, we tend to duck and shield our eyes from the shattering revelations ("Immaculate Deception" movie).

Edward Snowden (The Guardian) The NSA will not shut up about whistleblower Snowden, but what about the spy who stole more? ...Snowden speaks out against the NSA via Google Hangouts at SxSW... technologists can really fix the deficiencies in the Internet to protect standards.

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  Use encryption, use it in layers (sxsw.com).

  WhistleBlogger (Gov't Accountability Project) Protecting corporate, government, and int'l whistleblowers since 1977. Edward Snowden speaks at SXSW: Daily Whistleblower News. GAP client and NSA whistleblower Snowden will speak live via videoconference...



Bradley Chelsea Manning is a hero.

• Who better to advise on business security than Snowden? He defends NSA surveillance whistleblowing at SXSW... secret government spy programs have rocked the world, [he] spoke live from Russia ....urging members of the tech-savvy audience to [use multiple layers of encryption]
• NSA...TV Archive Democracy Now! [on] the latest revelations from Snowden that the NSA...seek[ing] the records of millions of individuals goes against the very fabric of... 
• Free Julian Assange (Facebook) Assange rails against NSA surveillance. He and his team are preparing NEW WikiLeaks releases.