WithoutCensorship covers one question from many angles: who decides what you are allowed to say, read and be tracked doing — and how that decision gets made, by governments, platforms and the companies that sell the tools.
We do two things. We write our own analysis and practical guides. And we republish the best reporting from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Voices and EDRi under Creative Commons, always credited to the original authors. Nothing here is sponsored.
Three articles that show what we do
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion — infrastructure that is easy to build and almost impossible to remove.
How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues — a fifteen-year-old game that got the surveillance city uncomfortably right.
Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigration Enforcement? — a national system, and a way to check your own town.
Five guides you can use today
Encrypted messaging without the myths — twenty minutes, and you will stop guessing which app protects what.
How to read a privacy policy in ten minutes — where to look, what to ignore, what should worry you.
Hardening your browser in an afternoon — one afternoon, a handful of settings, and most of the tracking is gone.
If your email falls, everything falls — one evening on the account that resets all the others.
Your phone at a border or a protest — what to decide before you travel or join a crowd, and what to expect if someone asks for your device.
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New to the vocabulary? Our plain-language glossary explains sixteen terms that keep coming up here — in ordinary English, with a link to the piece where each one appears.
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