Support an Open Internet, create your own freedom.txt

January 22, 2012 / posted in Technology, View Point / 14 Comments

Today I came across http://fr.anc.is/freedom.txt and that resulted in http://isingh.info/freedom.txt

This is not to protest against any bill, but in general show support for a free and uncensored internet. We may have defeated SOPA, but there will be many more such bills. It’s high time we show that we will not let the freedom of the internet be taken for a ride. Furthermore I will add links to any freedom.txt I come across. I hope that the next time when somewhere searches for freedom, they damn sure see all these results!

Do add your own freedom.txt to your domains. If possible send me a link, and I will add it to my freedom.txt.

Update: I have set up a small landing page for this. http://wastedcode.com/freedom/. Let me know if you have any suggestions or want to add some content!

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  • Eric Martindale
    • http://isingh.info Inderpreet Singh

      Thanks, I have added the link!

  • Mateusz Marek

    I will add my freedom.txt tomorrow (actually now it is today, I should sleep but still have a lot to do). I have idea: maybe instead adding a link to each other we should just create simple website where everyone could paste link to main website and (magic) will be added to some index?

    • http://isingh.info Inderpreet Singh

      It would be great to have a global database of people who publicly support this. While I didnt setup the backend, but I did setup something small here: http://wastedcode.com/freedom/

  • Jacob Stoner

    JacobsParts Inc. supports a free and open internet:
    https://www.jacobsparts.com/freedom.txt

    • http://isingh.info Inderpreet Singh

      Thanks Jacob!

  • Artur Ejsmont

    I like the idea,

    Have you seen any RFC or anything? i have 2 language versions and i wonder would it be domain.com/en/freedom.txt or domain.com/freedom.en.txt etc :)
    Would be super awesome to have actual RFC and options (syntax) to explicitly state what you are supporting and what you are not found of :)

    cheers

    • http://isingh.info Inderpreet Singh

      You are right, it would be nice to have an RFC. For now, I have put this information here http://wastedcode.com/freedom/

  • mmphosis
    • http://isingh.info Inderpreet Singh

      Thanks! Added it!

  • http://jacobroufa.myopenid.com/ Jake Roufa

    Thank you for sharing this on HN!

    http://jacobroufa.com/freedom.txt

  • http://twitter.com/daGrevis Raitis Stengrevics
  • http://arkadir.myopenid.com/ Victor Nicollet

    I agree with the general idea, but disagree with the details of the message. Hence:
    http://www.nicollet.net/freedom.txt

  • Marco Ferretti