• Help Build and Protect the Future of the Web

    December 5, 2013
    Millions of people have helped make the Web the amazing, essential thing that it is. So when the Web turns 25 in 2014, we’ll need millions of people to help secure the Web’s future.
  • Round Two for the Web We Want

    November 21, 2013
    The Web We Want campaign, a collaboration between Free Press and the World Wide Web Foundation, recently announced its second round of small-grant recipients. Winning applicants come from around the world and are on the front lines of a range of important issues.
  • Why the FCC Matters

    November 7, 2013
    This week Tom Wheeler became the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He comes to power at a unique moment: Net Neutrality is under attack in the courts, TV companies are finding sneaky new ways to consolidate, and phone and cable companies are pursuing a deregulatory agenda that could cut off essential communications services for millions.
  • The Culture of Surveillance

    November 5, 2013
    On Oct. 26, thousands of people from across the U.S. attended the Stop Watching Us rally. But while the NSA was the rally’s official target, mass surveillance of innocent people has been a problem for years.
  • Taking the Fight for Privacy to the Streets

    October 16, 2013
    It’s been four months since Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s spying regime. Since then, we’ve discovered that the agency tracks our phone calls, our emails, our browsing history and our contacts. It also tracks our contacts’ contacts … and their contacts.
  • The Web We Want Awards Its First Grants

    October 9, 2013
    Last month, our Web We Want campaign announced the launch of our Small Grants program, through which we made a limited number of small grants to national and global digital rights campaigning efforts.
  • Join the Rally Against Mass Surveillance

    September 25, 2013
    The NSA is creating a climate of fear, chilling free speech and violating our basic human rights. But a movement is building to change all of this. And we're about to take the next step.
  • The Web We Want

    September 13, 2013
    Free Press and Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation have formed the Web We Want, a campaign to support global, national and regional efforts to make the Web universal, free and open. Our goal: creating a world where everyone, everywhere is free to collaborate and create without fear of censorship or persecution.
  • The Battle Over Online Free Speech Starts Today

    September 9, 2013
    Sept. 9 is the next front in the long-running battle over what we can do and say online. That’s the day Verizon will face the Federal Communications Commission in court over the agency’s Net Neutrality protections, which the company wants to overturn.
  • 'The Inevitable End of Surveillance Is Self-Censorship'

    August 26, 2013
    The NSA's state-surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen.

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