⁣The FreedomBox project was founded on February 5th, 2010 when Eben Moglen delivered a speech titled, "Freedom in the Cloud." On November 16th, 2019, the FreedomBox Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center co-hosted a hackathon to commemorate the upcoming ten-year anniversary of the FreedomBox project's founding. At the hackathon, Eben Moglen delivered a speech in which he discussed the past ten years of FreedomBox and the future of the project.

About FreedomBox

The Internet Needs Freedom

The Internet is centralized and controlled by a small number of digital titans. That means that it’s easy for the internet to be surveilled, data-mined, and controlled. Think about your own experience of the internet: can you do anything on the internet without going through a major platform first?

It’s very difficult to escape the large platforms that control our data and our lives. But it shouldn’t be. That’s why FreedomBox was built: it cuts out the middleman and empowers you to do things like share files, send encrypted messages, have voice calls, and edit documents through a server you host yourself.

FreedomBox website: https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/
Video source: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2U8PyukPyGE