Tag: Mass surveillance

  • NSA Dick Pics Sheriff

    NSA Dick Pics Sheriff

    YouTube has been pulled (and the official video is Geoblocked in the UK, because obviously John Olliver has no fans in his home country!) but it’s on Facebook, or for some time, maybe, Vid.Me or DailyMotion: John Olliver interviewed Edward Snowden, as well as grilling him he also helped him communicate to the American public…

  • Public Service Messages

    Public Service Messages

    Some of you might recognise some of this footage from Godfrey Reggio’s 1974 commercials for the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, as I used bits for one of my Kleptones videos. I got it from a documentary about Godfrey, but good to see the full adverts at last, they are beautiful. And they still seem…

  • When will we fight back?

    When will we fight back?

    A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…

  • Party at the NSA

    Party at the NSA

    Great and very topical song by YACHT that reminds me oddly of Le Tigre about the whole NSA debacle – donate to download or get a T-shirt, proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Although strangely I was half expecting a Miley Cyrus parody like this:

  • NSA PIXAR ident and other parodies

    NSA PIXAR ident and other parodies

    Love this…I’ve not spoken much about NSA or PRISM partly because I’ve made my position clear in previous posts over the years – and a lot of this was suspected, or rumoured for decades. And also when the legislation and previous acts came to light very few people especially those in the US seemed to…

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