The fight for internet freedom is no longer a tactical cat-and-mouse game—it’s a normative battle to define the future of free expression. Learn why in @OpenTechFund’s Annual Report detailing 60+ projects we supported to preserve a free & open internet. https://t.co/WL7gacRzEt

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I am saddened to record this. I am a better man for having known my friend @charliekirk11, just as this country is better for his work. Charlie had a curious mind and wanted to improve it. He sought to know the basic things of this Earth and how they reach to Heaven, where he

New research from @OpenTechFund -supported InterSecLab & partners uncovers how a Chinese company exports cutting-edge tools for mass and precision surveillance & censorship—transforming how quickly & easily states can control digital communications (1/2). https://t.co/k9pLcPG8LY

.@OpenTechFund’s Security Lab partner @ROSecurity’s recent audit of @Tails_live found that the operating system is well designed from a security perspective. Learn more and access the full audit report: https://t.co/RIufdHK3L9 #DigitalPrivacy

New research from the @OpenTechFund shows alarming security issues affecting major VPN providers with over 700 million users worldwide. Using @opencorporates' data, researchers were able to analyze ownership structures and trace their real controllers. https://t.co/w5VFJAGUQO

Vital research from @bmixonbaca 👇Transparency of VPN providers matters. Users can also study where their VPN apps are available via https://t.co/41udkmLywY & https://t.co/FK12eVHPKq For ex, unavailability in the EU, may indicate GDPR compliance issues.

Have you seen the latest VPN research from @OpenTechFund? Turns out, around 20 popular services that present themselves as independent (and even as “competitors”) may actually belong to the same developers. Among them: Turbo VPN, Turbo VPN Lite, VPN Proxy Master, Snap VPN, VPN

New research from @OpenTechFund’s ICFP Fellow @bmixonbaca includes analysis of 16 commercial VPN apps that are popular in authoritarian contexts. Learn about their suspicious operations and security issues: https://t.co/ORCwpYUte3

Make America Fentanyl Free supports President Trump’s efforts to end the fentanyl crisis.

.@OpenTechFund’s Security Lab partner @ROSecurity’s recent audit of @OpenObservatory found that their services and architecture are securely designed. Learn more and access the full audit report: https://t.co/2ME0QDiUcs

.@ChinaFile’s Jessica Batke and @LauraEdelson2, authors of a new report that reshapes our understanding of Chinese censorship, spoke to the @washingtonpost’s @NorthropKatrina about how the “Locknet” works. https://t.co/DMFHK4NJsP

I talked to @NorthropKatrina for this piece on China's digital ID system. It's a great example of two key features of the Locknet: 1) different aspects of the censorship system reinforce each other, and 2) pushing the policeman into citizens heads. https://t.co/GIQHc3G4iW

“Scholarly works…held that the main goal of China’s internet censorship was to forestall protests…Leaders have a much larger ambition…to remake the…information landscape such that it alters what citizens know, and even what they think.” @ChinaFile https://t.co/BbK8picWjU

hi! we just launched SF + LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500+ events, over 2x last year’s launch! SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12 LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19

The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters -> very important and updated review of censorship mechanisms in China https://t.co/HhnPDBNgQ6

New @OpenTechFund-supported research reshapes our understanding of Chinese censorship. It's not simply a “firewall," it’s a “locknet”—a dynamic, mutil-layered system of total information control.

This research reshapes our understanding of China’s censorship model. We must engage with its reality & understand the CCP’s ambitions within it—as it exists on the mainland and as it projects out into the rest of the world. (4/4)

One of the key findings is that China’s censorship model is ambitious in scope, shaping the digital architecture of the global internet in ways that affect users outside of China too. (3/4)

designed this app in 3 hours. cooking?

Instead of a technical splinternet, China’s censorship model maintains connection to the global internet – upending an assumed tradeoff between the economic benefits of connection and authoritarian desire for information control. (2/4)

Supported by @OpenTechFund: @ChinaFile’s Jessica Batke & @LauraEdelson2 explain that Chinese censorship isn’t simply a “firewall, but a “locknet” – a multi-level system that controls Chinese internet users in overlapping and reinforcing ways. (1/4) https://t.co/nrZJam24Qa

.@OpenTechFund’s UXD Lab has provided more than 190 usability-support engagements for internet freedom tools. Learn more about the Lab and other key results from our internet freedom work: https://t.co/CnpFdbqMc0

Learn how @OpenTechFund works hard to provide millions of people around the world with access to innovative technologies that enable people to securely and reliably exercise free expression online. (4/4) https://t.co/OHoMsMmkLT

a significant jump in initial claims, large enough to have good odds carries through increase next week. if we have that progression indicates a recession has or already started. not conclusive this week on its own. seasonal adjustment in line.

Their recommendations align with @OpenTechFund’s mission: funding the development of cutting-edge, open source anti-censorship and end-to-end encrypted tools + prioritizing support for privacy-preserving tech that incorporates best-in-class security standards. (3/4)