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Ask Reddit to upvote user freedom by serving no nonfree JavaScript
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Zak Rogoff
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Dec 27, 2013
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Jan 02, 2014 04:55 PM
Reddit is a major Internet hub that's home to lots of awesome communities, and it's always been very supportive of computer user freedom. In 2008, its admins took the admirable step of freeing the vast majority of its codebase, which was a significant contribution to the free software world. We're appreciative of Reddit's role in free software, as well as its contributions to humanity in the form of cat pictures side-by-side with high-brow political discourse. That's why we think that it would be fitting for Reddit to take the next step in its free software journey, by updating its site to run without any nonfree JavaScript.
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Asking Obama to protect encryption, and why that's not enough
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Zak Rogoff
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May 22, 2015
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May 26, 2015 03:07 PM
This week the FSF added our signature to a coalition letter addressed
to Barack Obama, calling on him to reject any proposal to
systematically undermine the encryption used to secure digital devices
and software made in the US.
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Be a guide for tech giving
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Zak Rogoff
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Dec 11, 2015
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Dec 11, 2015 06:35 PM
In the flurry of holiday advertising that happens at the end of the
year, many people are swept into buying electronics gifts that trample
their recipients' freedom and that take more than they give.
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Be the envy of the Internet with a shiny FSF member badge
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Zak Rogoff
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Dec 23, 2016
Associate members are the roots of the Free Software Foundation. To
recognize their contribution to computer user freedom, the FSF
offers them benefits, like the digital "member since" badge. The
badge just got a new look for 2017:
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Building a better LibrePlanet: What we learned from the conference surveys
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Zak Rogoff
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Jun 21, 2016
For the last three years, we've surveyed attendees of the LibrePlanet
conference about their experience, and applied that feedback to the
next conference. We'd like to share what we've learned from the
results of the past few surveys, and from the process of designing
them.
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Can you join us at LibrePlanet?
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Zak Rogoff
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Mar 13, 2014
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Mar 14, 2014 02:39 PM
Five more reasons to come to LibrePlanet.
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Cancel Netflix if you value freedom
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Zak Rogoff
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Jul 12, 2013
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Jul 12, 2013 05:15 PM
For the last few months, we've been raising an outcry against Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a plan by Netflix and a block of other media and software companies to squeeze support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into the HTML standard, the core language of the Worldwide Web. The HTML standard is set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which this block of corporations has been heavily lobbying as of late.
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CiviCRM: a key part of the free software movement
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Zak Rogoff
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Oct 14, 2015
At the CiviCRM User Summit on the weekend of September 24th, I got to
meet the faces behind the software that powers the Free Software Foundation's
communication. CiviCRM is the leading free software CRM (constituent
relationship management) software, and it's central to our work at the FSF: it
sends every email we write and receives every petition signature and
every donation you send us.
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Coming soon: Email Self-Defense in Spanish, German, Portuguese, and more
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Zak Rogoff
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Jun 20, 2014
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Jun 26, 2014 05:12 PM
We're excited to announce that volunteers are currently working on translations of the guide and infographic into ten languages. Wow!
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Community is the focus of 2015's International Day Against DRM
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Zak Rogoff
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May 05, 2015
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May 05, 2015 05:38 PM
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 -- Today, a wide variety of community groups, activist organizations, and businesses are taking part in the ninth International Day Against DRM (dayagainstdrm.org).
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