Today on 4th July ‘Restore the Fourth‘ was scheduled for today against the NSA surveillance programs and Reddit, WordPress, and Mozilla will take part in the ‘Restore the Fourth’ campaign online, while live protests take place in cities across the US.
By examining this campaign, we will say that this is running online and offline with huge support because this campaign also takes place online via Twitter and Live in various cities of US, as we said above about this but in every protest Twitter’s role always there to make the protest more stronger, like the latest example of Turkish protest.
Live Many people are using HashTag #restorethe4th on twitter to take place in this protest and many are protesting in cities.
The campaign, which was spawned on Reddit, has the support of several privacy and press freedom advocacy organizations, including Mozilla, Free Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and ColorOfChange.org.
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The rally was largely organized by Fight for the Future – another non-profit agency which fights against internet censorship. The organization’s co-founder, Tiffiniy Cheng, said in a statement that “the NSA programs that have been exposed are blatantly unconstitutional, and have a detrimental effect on free speech and freedom of press worldwide.” The rally is expected to be Fight for the Future’s largest online mobilization since its actions against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
According to RT:
Organizers are planning live protests in dozens of US cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Atlanta. Doug MacArthur, a member of Restore the Fourth’s national board and moderator on Reddit’s r/news, expects between 10,000 and 20,000 people to take part in the protests in the nation’s larger cities.
We will update this news as something new update come.
