Standing with Edward Snowden
The Internet Defense League is raising the “Cat Signal” tomorrow in support of Edward Snowden and of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, so if you have a site I’d like to ask you to take part as well, and also to take a look at all the other ways in which you could help and see what else you might be able to do.
I do hope the campaign code will work this time, though, because I put it up during their last campaign as well and nothing happened. Granted, at that time I only used the specific campaign code, which wasn’t yet made public now, and this time I’m using the automated “all campaigns” one, so let’s hope that’ll be good enough. If it’s not, I’ll probably be redirecting the whole site to a campaign page, probably just the one I linked to above, listing all the ways in which one can get involved, and turn the “Cat Signal” into a blackout, because this is too important to miss due to technical issues.
I should be writing a longer post in support of Snowden now, in fact I should have already done that some time ago, but I’ll let you read a good article I stumbled into a few hours ago and just say that, beyond what was actually revealed and the discussions and campaigns that have been triggered as a result of his actions, he has also given us another “face” of whistleblowing. Seeing as I’m not sure what, if anything, will come out of everything else and considering the situation Julian Assange is in and, more importantly, the problems caused so far by his personality and behavior, this may end up being the most important aspect of these recent events, as it may just kick a movement back into motion once again, help others come forward and maybe, just maybe, somehow get something done.
