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hide captionThousands of websites participating in the "Day We Fight Back" will show this banner, or something similar, to site visitors.
Courtesy of Demand Progress
Reddit, Tumblr and Mozilla are among nearly 6,000 websites participating in wrote in November. But it also warned that "the NSA has a long history of twisting the language of statutes to argue for surveillance authority."
The bill's two sponsors — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. — weren't always working alongside open-Internet activists. Leahy authored PIPA, one of the bills at the root of the 2012 protests, and in 2005 Sensenbrenner introduced the USA Patriot Act, which the Freedom Act would amend. Sensenbrenner said last July that he was "extremely troubled" that the FBI had used the Patriot Act to justify collecting phone records in bulk from Verizon.
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The anti-surveillance protest comes amid a number of advances for the open-Internet movement. A few weeks ago, tech companies reached an agreement with the Justice Department to release information, albeit limited, about the number of data requests they received from the government. Several tech giants, including Google and Apple, recently formed a coalition to lobby for government surveillance reform in Washington.
But last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the federal government could not enforce net neutrality, which opponents say limits open access to the Internet.
