A new way to fund internet freedom
A coalition of privacy, internet freedom, cryptocurrency and open-source ecosystems, led by the Tor Project and Funding the Commons, today announced a new participatory funding campaign designed to support critical digital infrastructure at a moment of systemic funding instability.
Launching today at internetfreedom.torproject.org and as an Onion Service, the cam...
The narrative frames the funding of internet freedom tools as a necessary act of collective self-defense against systemic decline in privacy and communication rights. The campaign introduces quadratic funding as a mechanism intended to shift power dynamics, positing that institutional money should follow community signals rather than dictating them. This relies on the premise that the essential public-interest infrastructure (digital public infrastructure) is valuable enough to warrant collectiv...
