User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-3203286-20140204200737/@comment-4811793-20140204201105

That's a great point. Some level of intelligence gathering is definitely needed to keep our country (and the world) safe. What protests like these try to accomplish is to balance that need for security against keeping the data collection activities a secret from the American people. Very few people would argue for a complete dead stop of all online monitoring, but most would also agree that the methods and techniques should be subject to overisght and public approval. Either way, it's a great debate and I love to see our community arguing both sides.