Stephen Fry joins demand to end NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance
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Stephen Fry will join 40 free speech groups and other high-profile authors and artists on Tuesday to demand an end to the mass surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. They will urge European leaders to take a stand against industrial-scale spying by US and British intelligence agencies.
Fry said Snowden's disclosures raised fundamental issues for Europeans: "Privacy and freedom from state intrusion are important for everyone. You can't just scream 'terrorism' and use it as an excuse for Orwellian snooping."
Index will announce that 40 free speech groups have also joined the campaign, including Amnesty International, Liberty, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Russian PEN Centre. Free speech organisations from Canada, Bahrain, Malaysia, Poland and Finland have also signed the petition.
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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/stephen-fry-petition-nsa-gchq-surveillance[/url]
Sadly, they will be completely ignored. I honestly believe all these European countries that are crying about US surveillance are the happy recipients of NSA-sourced data about activities within their own borders. I have no proof of this, just a general feeling that this is how we conduct business now. Kind of like how the Pakistanis constantly complain about drone strikes, when they ALLOWED the US to bomb people in their country provided the CIA used those drones on certain political enemies of the regime.
Steven fry is one of the best persons alive today.
Literally my favourite person in the world.
[QUOTE=The golden;42294279]Didn't one of the initial Snowden leaks confirm that much of Europe (especially Germany) had a no-questions-asked access policy with the NSA?[/QUOTE]
Not exactly. They confirmed that much of Europe was willing to cooperate with the NSA to allow eavesdropping and information-gathering on foreigners within their borders.
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