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Mar 27 4 tweets 5 min read
”listeners & viewers are getting around Russia’s media barricades through the use of virtual private networks & ‘mirror sites’ that duplicate content but use a different URL.”
“Russians during the Cold War would try to tune in @RFERL by fiddling with the radio dial”
🎙💡🔒📲📻🖥
It should be the official foreign policy of the USA to uphold human rights by providing access to info to every person on Earth through satellites, VPNs, & mesh networks.
Congress should vastly increase funding for @OpenTechFund.
@POTUS should oppose Internet shutdowns.
#KeepItOn
Less than 2 years ago, the Trump administration attempted to shift @OpenTechFund’s funding away from open source projects.
Our coalition called on Congress to @SaveOTF & maintain US support for Internet freedom tools that Russians & others are using now: opentech.fund/results/suppor…
In October 2021, @USGAO recommended Congress act to preserve the independence of @USAGMgov from political interference:
gao.gov/products/gao-2…
GAO specifically noted impact on @OpenTechFund: funding ceased for 49 of 60 Internet freedom projects! $ flowing now, but isn’t secure.

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A historical note from AOTUS @dferriero: Before FDR signed a law creating @USNatArchives in 1934, @librarycongress held some public records & others were scattered across our union.

(In 2022, many records are digital & online: archives.gov/foia/january-6…)

#SunshineWeek #OpenGov
@dferriero @USNatArchives @librarycongress AOTUS: That's the plan, to digitize everything, but we won't see it in our lifetimes.
Most info generated today has no paper equivalent: it's born digital.
What we're talking about is digitizing our history.
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~9 million of us lost a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or grandparent.
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As he (& @CISAgov!) say, identity is a national critical function in 2022.

The pandemic made the capacity to verify identity online a critical need.
When I first logged on in 1993, no one knew if I was a dog: newyorker.com/video/watch/th…

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I bumped it to @PressSec today.
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Many /open pages across the US government still link to it, as you can see at FCC.gov/open, but it’s a 404.

#OpenGov "lives" at open.usa.gov
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Who decides who "media" are, @Twitter?
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