Aaron Swartz Explains Why The NSA Needs To Be Stopped
from the from-beyond-the-grave dept
Last week, when we wrote about the big "day of action" against the NSA in memory of Aaron Swartz, to be held February 11th, a few folks questioned whether this was an appropriate issue, since they were unaware of Aaron being all that concerned about the NSA. Obviously, Aaron died months before the Snowden leaks, but as many folks who knew Aaron knew, the NSA was absolutely an issue he was quite concerned about even prior to the Snowden leaks. Brian Knappenberger, who has been working to put the finishing touches on his new documentary about Aaron, The Internet's Own Boy, in order to debut it at Sundance, has released an astounding trailer of the film (which looks amazing). Included in it, are multiple clips of Aaron actually speaking out about the NSA and surveillance, mainly focused on the NSA saying it can't possibly calculate how many Americans it's spying on, because to do so, would be either (a) impossible or (b) would violate their privacy (yes, at one point, they actually said figuring out how many people are being spied on would violate their privacy).![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Filed Under: aaron swartz, brian knappenberger, nsa, privacy, surveillance
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Leave the guy in peace, it's apparently all he wanted.
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Nigel
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For those still getting their news from the newspapers and MSM sources, they've likely only run across a few small bits of information about all this mess, and only the pro-NSA/spying side, with few exceptions.
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And it has to stop.
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So let's stop voting for the Big Two, already. Other candidates are available.
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The NSA murdered Aaron Swartz
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But I didn't use Emacs, so I said nothing.
Then they came for the people who used Windows.
But I didn't use Windows, so I said nothing.
Then they came for the people who were concerned about the NSA . . .
(do you see where this is going?)
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Lighting A Candle
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