Freedom of the Press
summary
A live-built platform called Samizdat Online launches July 2022 to bypass state blocks by fetching publisher pages on node servers, rewriting links into unfilterable SOS links that anyone can send over WhatsApp or email. It already aggregates roughly 50 publishers in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, auto-translates headlines into five languages, and prototypes in weeks; expected reach is ~100 million readers but capacity is limited, so funding and horizontal scaling are the immediate bottlenecks to withstand censorship and DDoS attacks.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Freedom of the press today
- 3:02Samizdat in Soviet Russia
- 5:32Putin’s propaganda impact
- 7:37Developer fights for press freedom
- 8:18February 24th changed everything
- 10:03Technology bypasses censorship
- 11:29Digital Samizdat platform
- 12:54SOS links bypass censorship
- 14:37Scaling under cyberattack risk
- 15:59What we need to grow
- 17:26Work vital for global freedom
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