Hello,

The Trump administration recently appointed a new CEO to USAGM, who fired the leadership of the Open Technology Fund (OTF).

Meanwhile, lobbyists are suggesting that funds that would normally go to the OTF should go to some commercial VPNs instead.

This is extremely concerning, given that the OTF is one of the main funders of free censorship circumvention and privacy-enhancing technologies that human rights defenders and vulnerable communities around the world rely on.

Today, OONI published a statement on why the OTF is essential for internet freedom: https://ooni.org/post/2020-06-19-save-internet-freedom-support-the-open-tech...

Please help share it: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1274030123608616960

And please join us in signing this letter to congress: https://saveinternetfreedom.tech/ (you don't need to be American, we aren't either!)

Thanks,

Maria.