Filecoin Group annab Edward Snowdeni ajakirjandusvabaduse sihtasutusele 5.8 miljonit dollarit

Media is a tough place these days. Journalists who report basic facts are accused of spreading “FUD,” they get hammered for perceived biases, and they must work in an Internet economy that often rewards speed over accuracy.

Nad arreteeritakse, pekstakse ja isegi tapetakse tõe paljastamise eest. Ajakirjandusvabaduse fondi andmetel vahistatakse tööl ajakirjanik suurenenud 1200% aastal USA-s, samal ajal kui 2020 ajakirjanikku kogu maailmas mõrvatud nende töö tõttu. 

The FPF is a group that seeks to protect journalists’ freedom of speech—and now it has a new way to do so, namely  Web 3 tools. On Tuesday, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it is giving FPF $5.8 million to build out its SecureDrop tool with “zero-trust architecture.”

SecureDrop is open-source software developed by FPF in 2013. It allows journalists and sources, especially whistleblowers who are at risk of arrest or violence, to communicate with one another via Tor. It’s used by New Yorker Intercept, ja The Washington Post, Ainult mõned nimed.

If the Freedom of the Press Foundation has a familiar ring to it, that’s because its president since 2016 is the biggest whistleblower in recent memory: Edward Snowden. This year, Snowden auctioned off an NFT made out of his image and a court ruling striking down the mass surveillance of Americans’ phone calls under the Patriot Act, raising $5.4 million in Ethereum for FPF in the process.

The FFDW grant will go toward exploring improvements for the SecureDrop system and, hopefully, to make the foundation’s databases of government data and press freedom violations extra-impenetrable. For instance, the FPF maintains its own archive of news websites that have been shut down, but it would like to take the next step of publishing these on a censorship-resistant platform. And it wants to see how it can leverage the best of what blockchain has built to keep privacy tools ahead of governments.

„Selle toetusega, mis on meie organisatsioonist seni suurim, oleme saanud kiirendada uute uuenduste ja funktsioonide kasutuselevõttu SecureDropis ning soodustada selle kasutuselevõttu kogu maailmas,” ütles FPFi tegevdirektor Trevor Timm pressiteate vahendusel.

See on omamoodi kasutusjuhtum Filecoin was made for. It’s a storage service run on a decentralized protocol so that people and institutions can rent out or lease space on other people’s computers. But instead of all that press data living on a reporter’s laptop down the road, Filecoin splits up files and distributes them across servers. It’s all about privacy.

“Our mission is to permanently preserve humanity’s most important information,” said FFDW board chair Marta Belcher. “FPF’s efforts are a natural fit for collaboration.”

Source: https://decrypt.co/82056/filecoin-group-grants-million-edward-snowden-press-freedom-foundation