Join Boing Boing, Reddit, and websites all over the world on the 11th to fight mass surveillance

Cory Doctorow 9:00 am Sun Feb 9, 2014

In two days, the Internet will erupt in a protest to rival the uprising against SOPA: in Aaron Swartz's memory, websites everywhere will add code from TheDayWeFightBack.org to their templates, helping to flood Congress — and the world's legislative bodies — with calls for an end to mass surveillance.

In America, we're demanding that Congress pass The USA Freedom Act, restoring the Fourth Amendment protection that Americans have enjoyed for hundreds of years. If you have a website (a Tumblr, a blog) then you — like us — can add the code to your template today, and on the 11th, it will go live.

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