Stéphane BortzmeyerGood morning, Paris! Third day of #SplinterCon, the conference about Internet fragmentation, censorship, and other sad things.
(Toot is late because my instance was down. In the fediverse, there is always at least one broken instance)
Introduction to the book "Digital Authoritarianism in the Making /
Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet" at #SplinterCon (did not read it yet)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553674/digital-authoritarianism-in-the-making/
Meduza is the main independant russian news site (obviously heavily censored in Russia) : https://meduza.io/
"Collateral freedom" is #RSF service to mirror censored Web sites under different URL, to work around censorship.
In russian:
https://monitor-ru.net/ : monitoring the Internet in Russia (and the outages / shutdowns )
https://vpn-ru.net/ : choosing a VPN in Russia
Digital Sovereignty Index: how to measure sovereignty?
"In a world where speech depends on software, free speech depends on free software."
Rewards for several projects that struggle against Internet censorship and fragmentation at #SplinterCon :
Libo Libo (mostly russian podcast using P2P to avoid censorship) https://libolibo.me/
The Community Net, providing Internet access in war-torn Myanmar (sometimes for offline devices, with asynchronous synch) https://www.thecommunitynet.org/
ShortMesh Distributing SMS even when the SMS provider boycotts your country (Iran, Cuba). Useful with some projects that require a verification of the phone number. (Using Matrix.) https://smswithoutborders.com/
End of #SplinterCon, but the fight continues.