Hi, I'm Cooper Quintin, senior staff technologist at EFF and a founding board member of Open Archive. I believe privacy and free expression are fundamental rights, rights which we can't afford to lose, which is why we build tools to defend them. For over a decade, Open Archive has defended internet freedom by creating secure, free, open source tools and resources that center human rights. We build with and for communities to equally prioritize security and usability, so tools like our app Save are as accessible as they are effective. Save defends history and its first responders by enabling people to verify and securely send their media over Tor to the Internet Archive and other decentralized servers.
Internet freedom has declined for 15 consecutive years, and without public support, tools like ours that protect these rights disappear, and history can be censored, manipulated, or erased. Every day, human rights defenders, journalists, and ordinary people rely on our app Save to preserve evidence, protect their stories, and hold power to account. As a public interest nonprofit, we answer to you, not VCs or governments. I'm proud to support internet freedom work, the infrastructure that makes privacy and free expression possible. After vast funding cuts to this space, these tools need community backing to survive more than ever.
That's why we've joined the Tor Project's participatory funding campaign, a community-driven approach that relies on many small supporters rather than a few large donors. To keep our tools thriving, the more people who donate, the more matching funds we receive. History can't defend itself, people have to. If freedoms matter to you, please support Open Archive and help keep these tools available to everyone, especially at-risk communities.
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