EFF has spent this year urging governments around the world, from Canada to Australia, to abandon their reckless plans to introduce age verification for a variety of online content under the guise of protecting children online. Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten...| Electronic Frontier Foundation
State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly concerned about the harms they believe the internet and new technology are causing. The list is long, implicating child safety, journalism, access to healthcare data, digital justice, competition, artificial intelligence, and government surveillance, just to name a few. The stories behind them are important: no one wants to live in a world where children are preyed upon, we lose access to news, or we face turbocharged discriminatio...| Electronic Frontier Foundation
Qbix Platform was originally borne out of a vision to decentralize social networking. The recent release of version 1.0 lays the groundwork for the coming revolution. It is the "Wordpress" of social networks. Here is what it achieves already: Communities can run their own social network and rel| Empowering People. Uniting Communities.
The Problem The social platforms we use today are all centralized under the control of large corporations. Our conversations, our identities, private documents, and public announcements are hosted on their servers. The vast majority of people online live in a feudal society dominated by Facebook,| Empowering People. Uniting Communities.
47 U.S.C. § 230 The Internet allows people everywhere to connect, share ideas, and advocate for change without needing immense resources or technical expertise. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, social media platforms, and educational and cultural platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive—is not an accident. Congress recognized that for user speech to thrive on the Internet, it had to protect the services that power users’ speech. That’s why the U.S....| Electronic Frontier Foundation
