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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The leading nonprofit defending
digital privacy, free speech,
and innovation.
The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
Nonprofits and NGOs rely on the .org top-level domain.
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Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today roundly rejected Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily indebted for-profit entity. This is an important victory that recognizes the registry’s long legacy as a mission-based, non-for-profit entity protecting the interests of thousands of organizations and the people they serve. We’re glad ICANN listened to the many voices in the nonprofit world urging it not to support...
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COVID-19 and Digital Rights
FEATURED UPDATE

Supreme Court Affirms That No One Owns the Law

In a major victory for open government and fundamental due process, the Supreme Court ruled today that the annotations in a state’s official legal code—summaries of court decisions and other sources that explain the state’s laws—cannot be copyrighted. That is, that there cannot be a better-explained version of the law available only to those who can afford to pay for it. The law, in any form, must be accessible to all. “Officials empowered to speak with the force of law,”...

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Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | April 30, 2020

COVID-19 and Technology: Commonly Used Terms

New technical proposals to track, contain, and fight COVID-19 are coming out nearly every day, and the distinction between public health strategies, technical approaches, and other terms can be confusing. On this page we attempt to define and disambiguate some of the most commonly used terms. Bookmark this glossary—we intend...
Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon, Cory Doctorow, Katharine Trendacosta | April 30, 2020

Frontier’s Bankruptcy Reveals Why Big ISPs Choose to Deny Fiber to So Much of America

Even before it announced that it would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Frontier had a well-deserved reputation for mismanagement and abusive conduct. In an industry that routinely enrages its customers, Frontier was the literal poster-child for underinvestment and neglect, an industry leader in outages and poor quality of service,...
Press Release | April 29, 2020

Teleconference About .ORG Sale: Thursday, April 30, 9 am PT/12 pm ET: EFF and Partners Discuss Future of .ORG as ICANN Decision Nears

San Francisco—The sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital threatens to bring censorship and higher operating costs to nonprofit organizations and international NGOs working in the public interest around the globe. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may decide as early as...
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