After the artist and researcher Steve Kurtz, founding member of Critical Art Ensemble, had been arrested by the FBI and faced "an indictment based on laws that severely curtail fundamental rights using the fight against terrorism as a pretext",Free Bitflows Declaration, http://www.netbase.org/t0/caedefense/english/fbl. Retrieved 2013-09-12 Public Netbase organized solidarity- and protest events in Vienna.
