Press and internet freedom advocates join crypto users in support of Wikileak...
Digital and journalistic rights are at stake in the trial for Julian Assange's extradition, say 24 major advocacy groups. A coalition of 24 press freedom, civil rights and internet defense groups have signed a letter asking Biden to leave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange alone.A Monday letter signed by the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, among others, asked the Biden administration to forego the extradition proceedings currently happening in the United Kingdom. The authors implore Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson to abandon the Trump-era....
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Coinbase has joined the ranks of Internet conglomerates Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Google and clasped hands with the Internet Association, or the IA. Based in Washington D. C., the IA was launched in 2012 and regulates Internet freedom and innovation, and Coinbase is now the first bitcoin company to enter into an agreement with the organization and have a "regulation say." CEO of the Internet Association Michael Beckerman explains that he is looking forward to having the bitcoin company's support in the future, and is looking to continue the group's efforts to help and aid Internet....
Advocates praise Bitcoin’s freedom from interference while deriding “positive” freedoms to act on free will. But Bitcoin requires both.
FREEDOM MetaDAO is creating the first DAO as a Service that enables freedom of speech, privacy, and protection. The platform allows users with little to zero knowledge of the crypto space to establish and oversee DAO-based groups with its customizable templates, including interacting modules. It offers tools for mitigating corruption and facilitating transparency. FREEDOM is […]
Challenges to internet freedom are threats to grassroots protests, panelists agreed. On Friday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden led a panel discussion as part of a fundraiser for the Tor Project.Joining Snowden were three experts in internet privacy and human rights. The four focused on global protests over the past year, whether they were in Minsk or Portland. Founder of the Library Freedom Project Alison Macrina said that: “What we saw a lot this summer with the BLM protests across the country and the world was [..] law enforcement monitoring social media of activists.” She continued to....
Publicism, a Dutch social enterprise established earlier this year, wants to leverage the potential of blockchain technology to guarantee press freedom. The initiative is backed by a €50,000 (~$52,000 U.S.) subsidy from the Dutch Journalism Fund (“Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek”), an organization supported by the country’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Science that seeks to stimulate the quality, diversity and independence of journalism. Publicism is an initiative of three Dutch media veterans: Pieter Haasnoot, Annemieke Teune and John Oliveira. Concerned by the decline of....