Event Details
December 01, 2012
Description
John Perry Barlow served on the Board of Freedom of the Press Foundation with Greenwald and Poitras.
Participants (3)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Perry Barlow | person | 6 | View Entity |
| Glenn Greenwald | person | 430 | View Entity |
| Laura Poitras | person | 378 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document page, stamped with a House Oversight footer, details the formation of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2012 to fund WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning amidst financial blockades. It narrates the prelude to the Snowden leaks, describing Edward Snowden's admiration for journalist Glenn Greenwald's anti-surveillance writings and Snowden's initial attempts (under the alias Cincinnatus) to contact Greenwald and urge him to use email encryption. It highlights specific blog posts from November 2012 where Greenwald criticized the US surveillance state.
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