Surveillance power has never been so concentrated in human history.

Never before have nation-states and corporations controlled digital infrastructure at such unprecedented scale, wielding this power against civil society without meaningful accountability and breaking the social contract that underpins free democratic societies. From journalists to innovators in decentralized technologies, no one is safe from government overreach.

This represents more than technological overreach—it constitutes an existential threat to the foundations of open democratic societies.

Meanwhile, we witness privacy-preserving technologies facing criminalization while mercenary spyware operators act with impunity, targeting activists, journalists, lawyers, and marginalized communities. Legal harassment and disinformation campaigns compound this threat, creating coordinated attacks that extend far beyond direct surveillance.

We face a binary choice: technology as an instrument of freedom or control. The decisions we make now will determine whether future generations inherit digital liberty or digital servitude.

The very principles of open societies and individual freedoms are at stake.

Traditional defensive approaches such as encryption, while necessary, prove insufficient against the advanced surveillance apparatus wielded by nation-states and corporations. We believe that digital rights exist only when actively defended, that privacy survives only through persistent action, and that freedom demands continuous resistance to forces that would eliminate it.

We are committed to transforming victims into empowered defenders.

We believe that those targeted by surveillance should not remain passive subjects but become active agents of their own digital sovereignty. Legal frameworks, while important, can be subverted or ignored by those in power. Therefore, we must create sustained pressure that imposes real costs on surveillance actors and establishes lasting precedents for accountability. We will build communities of mutual support that transform isolation into collective strength.