Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes.

The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the USA First Amendment by chilling speech and the open exchange of information, and that it also runs up against Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

In an op-ed in today's New York Times announcing the lawsuit, Wikipedia's co-founder, Jimmy Wales, and Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, cited the tens of thousands of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia entries around the world.

Many of those volunteer contributors, they note, "prefer to work anonymously, especially those who work on controversial issues or who live in countries with repressive governments." The fear that the NSA could be collecting information on contributors, and perhaps sharing that intelligence with other governments, "stifles freedom of expression and the free exchange of knowledge that Wikimedia was designed to enable."

TCP did a web search this day, up to 8am March 12, 2015 to find any media outlet in Australia covering this massive story but could find none...NONE!!! Every major media in the USA covered it, UK media covered it, India covered it, The New Zealand Herald covered it but so far no media in Australia.

As far as we know at time of uploading TCP is the exclusive source in Australia of this very important story.
TCP reminds readers that Australia's internal spying regime is at least as pervasive as that in the USA.