I just received a concerning email from the OTF (@opentechfund.bsky.social) stating that a major source of their funding is in jeopardy.
If you care about open-source, anti-censorship, or the open internet, please consider supporting one of the projects they fund.
#FOSS #OpenSource #TechNews
#USPol #Politics #News #PoliticalNews
#NetNeutrality #EFF
#Wikimedia #Signal #SignalApp
#TOR #TAILs #OpenVPN #VPN #LetsEncrypt #HTTPS #SSL
#Censorship #AntiCensorship
Efforts to Prevent Vanishing Government Web Pages Continue:
After the presidential inauguration in January, many federal web pages, including information about #climate change, reproductive #health, #gender identity and sexual orientation have been restricted, altered or completely taken down. Thanks to @waybackmachine many of these pages still exist in their original context in the @internetarchive — freely accessible to the public.
#dataPreservation #libraries #libraryScience #openGovernment #anticensorship #lgbtqia #ushistory #history #erasure #bodyAutonomy #dei #climateJustice #climateStrike #humanHistoryIsHistory #publicDomain #classWarIsReal #cultureWarIsDisinfo
Rdsys 1.0 has been released, officially marking the first stable version of Tor's next-generation bridge distribution software.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-rdsys-1-0/ #tor #censorship #anticensorship
#TorProject #2024: Year in Review
Improving performance and #security
- Onion Services improvements
- Vanguards support
- Memory and Bandwidth tracking and support
Expanding #anticensorship capabilities
- WebTunnel
- Snowflake
Advancing outreach and advocacy
- Joining forces with Tails
Preparing #Tor for the future
- Human-friendly .onion addresses
https://blog.torproject.org/2024-year-in-review/
Historic Day of Action Against #BookBans Held in New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries
First-ever #AntiCensorship rally mobilizes scores of New Yorkers against the alarming rise of #BookBans
October 19, 2024
#NYC's #libraries are leading a nationwide effort to combat book bans this weekend
Book giveaways, speeches and DJ sets are part of this day of action on Saturday.
Ethan Beck, Friday October 18 2024
"More than 10,000 books were removed from public schools, at least temporarily, during the 2023-24 school year, according to #PENAmerica. In response, NYC libraries are holding events this Saturday, October 19, 'to inspire action against book bans and for the freedom to read.'
"NYC’s three library systems have come together to lead nearly 200 libraries and #bookstores across the country in the #FreedomToRead Community Day of Action, which will include events in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. It's the first nationwide day of action to combat book bans and censorship."
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/nycs-libraries-are-leading-a-nationwide-effort-to-combat-book-bans-this-weekend-101824
#Libraries #Censorship
700+ #Books #Removed From #Florida #Schools: #BookCensorshipNews
Also, an #Alabama #anticensorship #group's #calltoaction, and more of this week's #censorship news.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Alabama #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Misogyny #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://bookriot.com/hundreds-of-books-removed-from-florida-schools/
"Distribute(d) Trust – The key to global encryption access"
https://www.youtube.com/live/r-wgsjyQlLs
Tor Project discusses the Tor Relay Operator Community Health Report
PDF link to full report:
https://www.sr2.uk/reports/2024-TorRelayOperatorCommunityHealth.pdf
#InternetGovernance #InternetProtocols #HumanRights #Decentralization #AntiCensorship #DataProtection: "The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures consider the human rights implications of their efforts.
RFC 9620 – titled "Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations" – is merely informational. It's not a standard, nor is it on track to become one.
It "outlines a set of human rights protocol considerations for protocol developers" and "provides questions that engineers should ask themselves when developing or improving protocols if they want to understand how their decisions can potentially influence the exercise of human rights on the internet."
The document explains the need for its existence as follows:"
Seven years ago, when we founded as a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, we published a "development" page that outlined what we did to become a human rights transit ISP centered on @torproject. We've now republished this on our blog with notes over the past seven years:
"Starting a Human Rights ISP"
https://emeraldonion.org/blog/starting-a-human-rights-isp/
If there's any clarification you'd like to see, please let us know!
Also, if you're one of the organizations that got started from our example, and you'd like to be mentioned in this article, please let us know that too!
Got interviewed about #LibResilient for NGI
(emojis added by the editors)
https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-interviews/michal-wozniak-libresilient/
Here's the link to the project (that somehow does not show up in the published interview, sigh):
https://resilient.is/
And here's the talk I gave at MCH2022 about it:
https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-198-trusted-cdns-without-gatekeepers
#Mozilla reverses course, re-lists #anticensorship extensions it removed in #Russia
"In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia."
https://www.osnews.com/story/139943/exclusive-mozilla-reverses-course-re-lists-extensions-it-removed-in-russia/ #censorship
"Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship"
if you want to help people access the full, uncensored internet via Tor, and you're a fedi admin, here's a way you can help. you may know about Tor Bridges and how they're used by people behind repressive governments that censor the internet to safely access the net. countries like China or Russia block the public list of Tor relays, for example.
WebTunnel is a Bridge method that uses a reverse proxy that you configure using your existing nginx (etc) web server that points to your server's local tor daemon. so your fedi instance can be a bridge to the Tor network for people who cannot connect to Tor normally. disobey.net is hosting one ^^
one thing to note is that it's important to disable nginx (etc) web server logs, since the people who use bridges are connecting to you as their first, trusted hop onto the tor network. something to keep in mind to maximize privacy and reduce your own liability.
more info here:
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/
install/config info here:
We're excited to have published a new @torproject WebTunnel bridge hosted by disobey.net!
Details are on https://emeraldonion.org/bridges
@theregister re: #infosec training for Jordanian women, I know an awesome #palestinian woman who lives in Jordan when she's not giving great digital #security / #privacy / #anticensorship trainings all around the world with the @torproject.
Kudos to Raya!
https://greatfire.org remains one of the most impressive, resilient, and important anti-censorship projects I know. Zero fluff. 100% innovative, direct, on-the-ground action that actually makes a difference. Something that's frustratingly rare.
TIL, Go application which is built on an Android Linux subsystem (#UserLand) can be run on #pinephone as well. Cool.
I am compiling #ooni-cli. Both os are #alpinelinux .
#anticensorship
This blog post by Neil Gaiman from 2008 is worth reading and rereading. It illustrates perfectly why we must stand united against people who want to censor "icky" fictional things, even when they are targeting stuff we personally dislike.
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html?m=1
If the whole blog post is too long for you to read, here's an excerpt that summarises the main point.
