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The Web transforms us.

We become data, code...

uploading our very selves...

...to a place
we call the cloud.

But this cloud is grounded
in hardware...

a chaos of code.

But with the right tools,

you can find
the signal in the noise.

I think that we live
in a very barbaric society.

We still deal with our problems
through the use of violence.

Help me, please!

At some point, some people
are gonna push back.

The second you start
asking questions,

you start making calls.

The way they keep you
is by keeping you ignorant.

I got to a point where
I was like, "I can't anymore."

I found my way to the Internet.

I believe
the Internet is mostly a tool

the established power can use

to monitor you
better than they ever did.

But the potentials
do cut two ways.

People think they can smash you,

but we're vicious
and we enjoy the fight.

It's just so goddamn fulfilling.

You say you want a revolution?

Get online.

In here, dissidents,
disrupters, and firebrands

tap, click,
and swipe at the status quo.

Power is being uploaded
to the people.

But chip away
at the walls of authority

and you might get taken down.

Fight for freedom
and you might find chaos.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Please help!

I think the history
of the past two centuries

is one of an extremely expanding
police state.

One with institutions

which divest the people
of all their wealth...

...hound them, beat them,
kill them.

People want to roll you over.

You just can't let that happen.

In a warehouse
on the outskirts of town,

Cody Wilson
is plotting something radical.

I'm an anti-statist.

I like anarchist politics.

I don't believe in large
institutions and corporations,

the modalities
of police-state enforcement.

And I believe that these
institutions are very weak,

and that they're only
puffing their chests up now

because they have to hide
how weak they are.

How to hit this power,

this overwhelming
just net of negativity

that won't allow you
to be anything, do anything,

think anything different,
dream different dreams.

And we thought,
"Yeah, WikiLeaks for guns.

Yeah, that'll be powerful."

WikiLeaks for guns --

open-source weapons
accessible to everyone.

Two years ago,
when he was 25 years old,

Cody made the first fully
functional 3D-printed gun

in his workshop.

16 plastic pieces
firing real bullets.

He called it the Liberator.

We stole the narrative
of 3D printing.

It wasn't just,
"Oh, you're gonna make,"

you know, "birthday cakes

and prosthetics for, you know,
children with no arms."

No.

There's gonna be weapons
and there's gonna be conflict,

and it was a kind of little
signal in all that noise

of a future
that wasn't supposed to happen.

A Liberator
can only be fired once

before it needs to be reloaded,
and it's dangerous to operate.

Pull the trigger
and the plastic could explode.

But that didn't slow the demand.

When Cody published
the blueprints to DEFCAD,

a deep-web file-sharing site,

they were downloaded
100,000 times in just 24 hours

and inspired fellow subversives

to print and share
designs of their own.

I see this world

that says only the state should
have a monopoly on violence,

and we're challenging that.

The people will have the weapons.

And you can argue,
"Well, that's wrong.

It shouldn't happen."

Well, it's going to happen.

The Internet
means access of everything.

I spend
four to six hours a day

reading these stories,
commenting on these stories,

sharing these stories
with other people.

Elsewhere in Austin,

Antonio Buehler
is hunting for the truth.

Johnny!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

The fact
that many millions of people

have been wrongfully
incarcerated and abused,

I wonder, would I recognize
that this is a problem

had this not happened to me?

Somebody's gonna get shot!

Somebody's gonna get shot!

I came from a military family

and a very patriotic
part of the country.

I was the first one in my family

to end up graduating
from high school,

and then I went to West Point.

I served in Kosovo
when I first got to my unit,

and then I served in Iraq.

I had five years of active duty,

and then I went
straight to Stanford,

to the Graduate School
of Business,

and I decided that I was gonna
move to Austin, Texas.

I was on a pretty sure path.

And then my life took a detour.

On New Year's Eve 2012,

Antonio was a designated driver

taking a friend home
from a party in west Austin.

Fuel gauge was on empty,

so I decided to pull into a
gas station on Lamar and 10th.

There was a police cruiser
there with his lights on,

and there was a woman
outside a sedan

in high heels and an evening gown,

and it just seemed obvious to us

that there was a DWI stop
in progress.

The woman in the passenger seat
was pretty chill.

It just didn't seem like
there was much of a problem.

Another police officer
came on the scene

and now reached into the car

and is ripping the woman
out of the car.

Don't worry about it.
Help me, please!

Why are you pulling me
out of the car?

Mom!

Why are you
doing that to her?

I pull out my BlackBerry

to try to take a picture.

The officer pushes me...

and puts me in a choke hold
and spins me around.

As I'm on the ground,
I ask why I was arrested,

and he said to me,

"Because you interfered
and you spit in my face."

And at that moment, I still
did not really understand

the gravity of the situation.

Stand up
for what you think is right,

and like that,
there's no turning back.

Life as you know it is over.

He was born with the name
Yisroel Avrum Stein.

Now a 23-year-old sophomore
at Columbia University,

he goes by Abby.

My father
is the 10th generation

of the founder
of the Hasidic movement.

Both of my grandfathers
had their own synagogues.

There was some kind of
unsaid expectation

that I would end up being a rabbi

because of the track that I took
growing up.

Abby was born
and raised in Williamsburg,

a Brooklyn neighborhood known
for its young, artsy scene.

But alongside the hipsters,

there's an enclave
for Hasidic Jews,

where Hebrew and Yiddish are
the languages on the street,

the dress code is straight out
of old-world Europe,

and much of modern culture
is shunned.

Growing up, I didn't
know we are different.

I believed
that most of the world is Jews

and most of the Jews
are ultra-Orthodox.

This idea of, like,
we have to be separated --

don't speak English, don't use it.

Only speak Yiddish.

That's me pretending to pray
when I was 2.

90% of the times, I was a good
kid and followed everything,

but in my mind,
I would question everything.

The idea of souls,
the origins of the Bible,

the origins of different laws
in Judaism.

And that's something that is not
allowed and not accepted at all.

Not everybody
in the Hasidic world

feels that way.

The Lubavitchers, another
Hasidic community in Brooklyn,

run chabad.org,

the biggest online presence
for Judaism in the world.

For them, the Internet
is a vehicle for the faith.

But elsewhere in New York,
three years ago,

50,000 Hasidic men
gathered in a baseball stadium

to rally against the potential
evils of the Web.

And the distrust only gets more
heated when you look online.

Scour social media and you'll
find fervently Orthodox Jews

gathering to burn cellphones...

...and crushing phones
on YouTube.

...while Hasidic programmers

have developed filters
for porn and heresy,

known as the kosher Internet.

This is one of the kosher phones
that I had.

I took it to this organization
who blocked everything.

They put a sticker that
just says in Hebrew, "kosher,"

and a serial number.

It's registered to me,
and everything is under control.

Everyone was, like, so obsessed

with this terrible,
terrible thing, the Internet.

They said it's, like,
a terrible place

where you have access to certain
information that is terrible.

I was like, "Great,
I can get information there.

Let's go see what it is."

Every rebel
has to start somewhere,

whether he's driven
by a question or a crisis.

I was charged

with felony harassment
of a public official.

The felony carries a mandatory
2-to 10-year prison sentence.

They put me in a small cell
with the light on,

no windows,
can't even see the clock.

A lot of things
went through my head.

Anger, despair, frustration...

a desire for revenge.

I thought that my
professional career was over.

Everything that I had been
working for had been ruined.

Um...

I recognize that, you know,

if that's
the worst night of my life,

it's not that bad

compared to what other people
have dealt with.

But, yeah,
for me it was pretty rough.

The next day,
Antonio was out on bail

and learned something
that could help his case.

The night of his arrest,

his friend had noticed someone
filming from across the street.

Another perspective
on what happened that night

could mean the difference
between prison and freedom.

I posted on Facebook
and Twitter and Craigslist,

"Did anyone witness an arrest
at the 7-Eleven

on Lamar and 10th?"

Interestingly, that's what worked.

Some random guy,
on New Year's Day 2012,

walking home, saw something
happening at the gas station.

And when things escalated,

he pulled out his cellphone and
took a video of the incident.

Without that, who knows
if I would have been pressured

into accepting
some sort of plea deal?

The grand jury did not
find sufficient evidence

to justify going to trial.

We got good media coverage.

So, yeah,
the cellphone video was huge.

On social media
and in the news,

allegations of police abuse
are going viral.

About 1/3 of the country's
1,700 police departments

are using body cams to document
encounters with suspects,

while citizens armed
with cellphone cameras

are filming back.

Eyewitnesses filmed the deaths
and arrests of Walter Scott...

Eric Garner...

Michael Brown...

and Freddie Gray.

Videos that ignited mass protests

and sparked
a more than 400% increase

in tweets with the
#PoliceBrutality.

Cop watching is a rare instance

where you're holding the police
accountable.

The police have to answer
for their actions

because you're documenting it,

and you can share it
with the world.

In certain hands,

a camera
is a dangerous thing --

as threatening as any weapon.

The gun is like a well of power

that you can keep drawing from.

It can, like any good symbol,
be used for almost anything.

After I printed the Liberator,

the White House directed
the Department of Justice

and the State Department
to figure out how to stop it.

So, they sent a letter.

They said,
"Look, this may have violated

the International Traffic
in Arms regulations."

They just threatened
to squash me like a bug.

I have this, like,
political desire

for this exact kind of trouble.

It's enormously pleasurable
for me.

Cody took the
Liberator blueprints offline

and fired back with something
much scarier.

I know there are
multiple sizes of these,

so let's get some new clips.

Let's try to replace this unit.

He assembled
a team of like-minded engineers

and programmers
to develop the Ghost Gunner.

Okay.

Works for me.

The Ghost Gunner's

a computer-controlled
milling machine.

Very simple.

A small little box made of metal
that's controlled by software,

so you can program it
to do simple machining tasks.

And just so happens that guns
are very easy to make.

The Ghost Gunner comes with
the software that you need.

You just run the files, and the
files take care of the rest.

You mostly watch the machine
do its work,

take it out when you're done,
clean it off, and build a gun.

All the parts you'll need

to build your own gun
are just a Google search away,

including the lower receiver

that houses the firing mechanism.

Without a firearms license,

you can only buy
unfinished receivers.

That's where
the Ghost Gunner comes in.

You can order it off
Cody's website for 1,500 bucks.

Put the raw lower receiver
in the Gunner,

and in two hours,
the machine drills it down.

Instead of a plastic pistol,

you've got a working
AR15 assault rifle...

...the weapon of choice
for the American military...

unregistered and untraceable.

Any gun that doesn't
come through the approved,

regulated, commercial,
or legal channels is a phantom.

It's something
we don't know about.

It haunts us.

Make it in your basement.
Make it in a moving van.

Stockpile all you want.
Give them to your friend.

Give them to your neighborhood.

There's 500 Ghost Gunners

floating around the country
right now.

Little mobile rifle factories
that people are using.

Who's gonna know?

When I publish our data
directly to the public domain,

it's outside of the reach
of the government,

the State Department,
the Defense Industrial Base,

the Defense Department,

Defense Technology
Security Administration.

They can't touch them.

They're trying to touch them,
but they can't.

You'll notice
I'm not in jail today.

No one's been killed

by one of Cody's
ghost guns... yet.

But every year, about 1/3
of all shooting deaths

are caused by unregistered guns,

some bought off the dark Web
for 8 Bitcoin,

or around 2,600 bucks.

All this transparency,

this uncensored exchange
of goods and ideas --

it's liberating.

It's terrifying.

I had a lot of anxiety
because of the questions.

I was afraid
the answers are gonna be

not the answers that will
fit in with the community life.

This, like, what is expected
of everyone in the community,

and it's pretty obvious.

Like, you never even question
it that when you get 17, 18,

and then you get married.

And you don't use birth control,

so you just start having
a lot of kids.

People expect that,
and this is what happens.

Around the time after my wedding,

I started questioning
everything again.

Is there a God?
This question drove me crazy.

Because I felt like
no one is asking this question,

so something is wrong with me.

I'm crazy.

I knew a friend of mine
who had showed me before

he had a tablet.

I asked him if I can borrow
the tablet for a few days.

"Okay."

I found a public bathroom

in a shopping center
that had Internet,

and I just started
sitting there for days.

Imagine going
online for the first time.

82 million videos.

100 million gigs of data.

60 trillion pages.

I remember, the second
day that I was on the Internet,

I found this Israeli
YouTube channel.

They have, like,
basic intros to evolution,

to the Big Bang, to biology,

to, like, almost everything
alive that you can imagine.

The whole idea,
the whole concept was --

totally shook me.

And I had e-mail exchanges
with different people

who were very religious,

and I remember asking them
at some point,

"Can you convince me
there is a God, yes or no,

without blind faith

and without telling me
that you can't understand God?"

And the answer was no.

This is where I made my final --

when I came finally to, like,
"I am done."

At age 20,

Abby left his community
and started over.

Unsure of how to dress in the
secular world or speak English,

he'd revolted against
the only life he'd ever known.

We got separated
in May or June of 2013,

and the official divorce
was a few months after.

We had a kid together.

We had a son.

Not being with my son every day

was the hardest part
for a long time.

What am I gonna do now?
Where am I going to?

Everything collapsed.

But maybe
a little upheaval isn't so bad

if it makes us question
the way things are.

A lot of people say,

"Well, imagine
if there were no police.

There'd be no social order.

There'd by anarchy."

Cop watching allows a different
narrative to be told.

Anyone else that's coming?

No, it's just this crew.

All right.

I started
the Peaceful Streets Project

a few months after I was arrested.

We decided that we were
going to launch an organization

to push back against
institutionalized violence.

We're in one car,
you guys are in another car.

Yeah.

And, so, who's gonna communicate
between the two cars?

When I was in elementary school,
the cops in my neighborhood,

they would drive around,

they would give us
Dallas Cowboy trading cards,

they knew our names,
they would talk to us,

they were nice.

Once I hit 16, I was constantly
being profiled.

"What gang are you in?"

I come from
a law-enforcement family.

I'm not gonna say that policing
was perfect 20, 30 years ago.

It has changed and gotten,
I believe, far worse since then.

You don't need to get arrested.

Can't have downtime.

You're not gonna
get arrested tonight, okay?

The Houston police just shot
a double amputee in the head

at point-blank range,

and I thought,
"How did we get to this point?

Is it too late to go back?"

Like,
if we don't have --

Well,
I think you two will jump out,

and then you two will jump out.

Shortly after
I left the Occupy movement

and it started crumbling,
Antonio put out the call

for the first Peaceful Streets
Project meeting,

and I answered the call
and never looked back.

He's up front, so you and I
are watching him and each other.

We ready to go?

At 10:00 p.m.,

Antonio and his crew head out
for a roving patrol,

canvassing the city
in search of police activity.

They stream police radios
over Wi-Fi

and track the cops
with the Waze app

that tips users off to cruisers
stopped in the area.

That might be a -- yeah,
this is maybe a DUI stop.

There's a stop back there.

DUI stop at the next intersection.

Call them.
Call them.

Most nights,
there's not much to see.

But that's not the point.

If the cops are going to patrol,

Peaceful Streets will, too.

When they listen in long enough,

they sometimes stumble
onto something big.

Three suspects, one has a gun.

Got it.

You think they went north?

There we go.
There we go.

Right now,

we got three cop watchers
on this side --

me, Joshua, and Steve.

The Peaceful Streets crew

has walked into the middle
of a confrontation

between Austin PD
and an allegedly armed suspect.

But for tonight, at least,

the cops seem fine
with them showing up.

Do you have a suspect
in this incident here?

We do. Yeah, we do have some
suspects that we have detained,

that we're talking to right now.

We want to see police officers

treating people with respect,
but at the same time,

where there's a police officer
abusing or mistreating someone,

we want to document
that situation.

As risky as it seems,

it is legal to film cops
in the line of duty.

But it's a fine line

between filming
and obstructing justice --

a line Antonio keeps testing.

Since January 1, 2012,
I've been arrested six times.

They indicted me on
interference with public duties

for filming
an undercover police officer.

I got arrested
in 2013 in Gonzales, Texas,

for telling a cop
to go fuck himself.

I have no respect for people
who think that a tin badge

gives them the authority
to dehumanize other people.

24 hours later,

Antonio and his crew are downtown,

patrolling the entertainment
district on foot.

Another night,

another opportunity
to challenge authority.

Policing is
an institution that is corrupt

and should be abolished
because it can't be reformed.

What we need to do is find
different alternatives.

There needs to be agitation.

Something needs to shake

people's understanding
of the world to get there.

Hey, check this out.

Oh, shit.

Watch out, watch out, watch
out, watch out, watch out.

Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey, hey!

They have mace out!

I would say I'm an idealist in
where I want to see society go,

but I'm a realist in that
I don't get what I want.

It was a lot of hard steps --

terribly hard, hard steps.

Going online
literally saved my life.

People commune,
people find each other,

and you can be a heretic
together with someone else.

For me, mainly what it told me
is that I'm not crazy.

On Facebook, Abby
found a community called OTD,

meaning "Off the Derech," or path.

It's a closed group.

Members want to remain
anonymous while they connect

and build communities of choice
in groups, forums, and threads.

I think
I was part of a big revolution.

There was always kids
who didn't fit into the box.

So, I slowly start

reading more of the liberal
Jewish philosophy,

and come to the point
where I'm like,

"Yeah, Judaism is man-made,
and that's beautiful."

Abby still recites
the old prayers,

but he's traded Hasidism

for a Jewish Renewal temple
on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Some people call it
a hippy synagogue,

and that's what I like about it.

The energy, the environment.

It's people dancing and jumping.

It pretty much changed my life
to the better.

And right now I feel like
I'm basically living the dream.

The costs
have been pretty significant

for doing what I've done
for the past 3 1/2 years.

I lost a lot of friends.

On January 1, 2012,

if I didn't stand up for that
woman and yelled at the cops,

I could have just stayed
on track with what I was doing.

But that was one opportunity
in my life to make a stand,

and I actually did it.

I'm happy that I did it.

The Internet is an
incubator for every rebellion,

disseminating ideas,
upending the status quo.

Whether that inspires you
or appalls you

depends on your idea of progress.

I don't think that ideas
should just be thrown into books

and that they should gather dust.

I want to inflict an idea.

Where there is a fear
of the people

on behalf of the government,
there is liberty.

And where there's fear of
the government from the people,

there's tyranny.

I don't have a message for,
like, a general people.

I have a message
for a coming people, though.

You're welcome.