Volt4ire
Wow the head of the Open Technology Fund just resigned over lobbying efforts to force it to fund closed-source projects https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935k5p/open-technology-fund-ceo-resigns
CEO of Open Technology Fund Resigns After Closed-Source Lobbying Effort

The Open Technology Fund has previously given money to all sorts of internet freedom projects.

Jun 19, 2020 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadVolt4ireJun 19, 2020
The Open Technology Fund is a publicly-funded organization that funds development and security audits of internet freedom-promoting FOSS projects such as TOR, Signal, Wireguard, and Tails; without it such projects might have never gotten off the ground
Show threadVolt4ireJun 26, 2020
talk about buried leads! it turns out the closed-source app that kicked-off the OTF scandal was developed by Falun Gong https://www.axios.com/falun-gong-us-agency-global-media-001fcf52-95fa-43de-b0c7-0cd7cfc2918f.html
In media agency shakeup, conservative groups push for Falun Gong-backed internet tools

Supporters of the controversial religious group banned in China have made common cause with the global far-right.

Show threadtouch fluffy tailJun 19, 2020
@volt4ire I thought Tor was DoD
Show threadVolt4ireJun 19, 2020
@fluffy that's where the initial research was done but its development and tooling around it (eg: torbrowser) were under OTF funding