Save Internet Freedom

Internet freedom, anti-censorship tools, and digital-rights policy

Plain-English writing on the tools that keep the open internet reachable.

Save Internet Freedom is an independent, educational magazine about internet freedom. The domain hosted the 2020 SaveOTF coalition letter defending the Open Technology Fund. Today we publish plain-English guides to the anti-censorship tools OTF pays for — Tor, Signal, Psiphon and more — and to the encryption and platform-liability debates that decide whether those tools stay legal. Educational content only.

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Save Internet Freedom is an independent, educational magazine about how the open internet is defended — and how it can be lost. We explain the tools people use to reach the news in censored countries, the encryption that keeps ordinary conversations private, and the policy fights that decide whether both stay legal.

The domain saveinternetfreedom.tech has a specific history. In 2020 it hosted a public letter to the US Congress defending the Open Technology Fund, an independent nonprofit that pays for the anti-censorship tools most people have never heard of but use every day. That letter is the reason this domain became known in the first place. See what happened to saveinternetfreedom.tech for the full story.

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Everything here is educational content only. Nothing here is legal advice or a substitute for a real digital-security consultation with someone who knows your specific situation.

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Digital Rights

What happened to saveinternetfreedom.tech

The 2020 letter that put this domain on the map — and what came next.

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Circumvention

Plain guides to the tools people use to reach the open internet when it is blocked.

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2026-08-22

What Tor is and how it protects speech online

The three-hop idea, in plain English — plus what Tor can and cannot do for you.
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2026-08-22

VPN vs Tor vs Psiphon: how each one helps

A plain comparison of the three tools people reach for when the open internet is blocked.
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2026-08-22

The Great Firewall of China, explained

What actually gets blocked, how the blocking works, and how people in China reach the open internet.

Digital Rights

The Open Technology Fund, the policy fights, and the country cases behind internet freedom.

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2026-08-22

What happened to saveinternetfreedom.tech

The 2020 letter that put this domain on the map — and what came next.
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2026-08-22

The Open Technology Fund, explained

What OTF is, what it funds, and why open-source anti-censorship tools exist because of it.
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2026-08-22

Iran's internet shutdowns and the tools people use

How Iran throttles and cuts the internet, and what people reach for when the connection goes dark.
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2026-08-22

EARN IT and the fight over end-to-end encryption

What the EARN IT Act actually says, why cryptographers oppose it, and how the child-safety debate got here.
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2026-08-22

How to help defend internet freedom

Concrete steps anyone can take to support the tools and people who keep the open internet reachable.
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2026-08-22

The 2020 letter to Congress on the Open Technology Fund

Reading the letter, who it went to, and how the ask was framed.
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2026-08-22

The OTF shake-up letter: why internet-freedom funding must be diverse

Reading the 2020 joint letter that argued no single source should decide which anti-censorship tools survive.
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2026-08-22

Statements of support for the Open Technology Fund

What activists, researchers, and organizations said in defense of OTF's independence.
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2026-08-22

Who signed the SaveOTF letter and why

A plain overview of the coalition that put its name to the 2020 letter defending OTF.
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2026-08-22

Updates on the internet-freedom fight since 2020

What has changed for OTF, Tor, Signal, and the tools people rely on to reach the open internet.
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2026-08-22

The fight to save internet freedom continues

Why the pressure on anti-censorship tools did not end in 2020 — and where the current front lines are.
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2026-08-22

The Open Technology Fund's accomplishments

The concrete tools, audits, and outcomes that OTF has helped deliver.
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2026-08-22

The individual signatories to the SaveOTF letter

Who the people behind the names were — journalists, security researchers, digital-rights advocates.
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2026-08-22

Letters in defense of internet freedom: an archive

The 2020 SaveOTF letter and other open letters that pushed back on threats to the open internet.
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2026-08-22

The organizations that signed the SaveOTF letter

The human-rights groups, tech nonprofits, and independent media that joined the SaveOTF coalition.

Secure Comms

How everyday encrypted messaging actually works, and how to use it without leaking who you are.

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2026-08-22

Signal for activists: encryption basics that matter

What end-to-end encryption really means, and how to use Signal without leaking your identity.