RightsCon Recap: From Funding Woes to Digital Rights Heroes
EFF has once again attended RightsCon in Taipei, Taiwan, where pressing global issues were tackled. This year’s message was clear: collectivize digital rights to counter authoritarian regimes and Big Tech’s rights-abusing tendencies. EFF urged solidarity in response to funding cuts and highlighted the crisis in platform accountability and the importance of encryption for all.
Hot Take:
RightsCon 2023: Where the world’s digital rights advocates gather to loudly shout, “We’re not gonna take it!” It’s like the United Nations, but with more hackers, fewer translators, and everyone’s wearing jeans.
Key Points:
- Massive funding cuts are threatening the global digital rights community, particularly in countries with a large population.
- Solidarity was a key theme, with notable calls to free Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
- Platform accountability is in crisis, with discussions on the EU’s Digital Services Act and potential user-empowered alternatives.
- Internet shutdowns and anti-censorship tools were hot topics, emphasizing the necessity of encryption.
- Topics ranged from Palestinian rights in conflict zones to the dangers of cross-border surveillance and transnational repression.
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