Black Code Page #6

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Bruno Teles became a character.

[crowd shouting]

[in Portuguese]

[Silva] They said

that Bruno was innocent,

and they used Midia Ninja image.

And they credited Midia Ninja.

It was the first time

that we were seeing

Globo recognizing

a free media collective

as a legitimate player

in the communication game.

It was a next step.

[crowd shouting]

[gunshot]

[explosion]

[glass shattering]

[woman]

Oh, he's changing his shirt.

[shouting]

[woman vocalizing]

[Orlando, in Portuguese]

[explosion]

[Bentes, in Portuguese]

[crowd chanting in Portuguese]

[shouting continues]

[crowd booing]

[in Portuguese]

[woman]

[woman crying]

[Orlando]

[shouting]

[crowd chanting]

Ninja! Ninja! Ninja!

[in Portuguese]

[crowd repeating]

[crowd repeating]

[cheering]

[crowd] Ninja!

[crowd chanting]

[digital pop music playing]

I've always been a fan of the

terms "hacking" and "hacktivism."

Especially "hacktivism"

which is the combination of

hacking and political activism.

And those combined

are pretty powerful to me.

It's about encouraging people not

to accept technology at face value.

We need to encourage people

to think about

what it is that surrounds them,

to question authority

in a sense of the authority being the

technological environment around them

and to realize that when you start

pulling back the layers of all of this,

that's where

the exercise of power is.

So if we want liberal democracy

to flourish,

we need people

to start lifting back the layers

and understanding

what's going on.

[clicking]

[Snowden] I think ultimately it comes down

to understanding what your values are,

because how do you

develop your thoughts, right?

How do you determine what it

is that you truly believe?

How do you determine what

it is you really want to say,

if you can't even

keep notes safely?

If you can't have some private

space, some space for thought,

some space to enjoy the product

of your own intellect,

to share that with people

close to you who you trust.

Whether they're family, whether they're

colleagues, whether they're compatriots.

[Deibert] One thing that I see a lot is,

this idea of technology as a solution.

It's a natural thing. Okay,

technology is under threat.

Let's find

a technological solution.

There are so many projects now

around secure communications,

platforms, chats, instant messaging.

But it's only one component

of a solution set.

And I think often overlooked are the

legal and political dimensions.

If we're talking about

protecting and preserving

all of this,

as a secure and open

communication space,

that means holding governments

accountable.

It means holding

companies accountable.

Putting in place rules and laws

that ensures they can't do things that

infringe on our freedoms and rights.

That to me is, uh,

such a critical foundation

of a digital democracy today.

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