A long-term editorial archive documenting digital freedom, privacy erosion, surveillance, censorship, and related technologies through unconventional interactive narratives.
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Digital freedom is being negotiated in real time. Encryption backdoors. Mass surveillance. Data brokers selling behavioral profiles. Each concession is small, incremental, and rarely debated in public.
This project documents it. Not as opinion pieces or hot takes, but as sourced narratives that stand on their own. Every claim backed by public records. Every quote verified. The format is secondary to the facts.
Each sequence opens with a terminal-style hook — a short, cinematic text animation that sets the tone. It then unfolds into a full editorial article: sourced, citable, and linkable per paragraph. Data sections provide cross-source comparisons so readers can see the full picture without relying on a single index.
The site has zero third-party runtime dependencies — self-hosted fonts, no analytics, no trackers. It practices the privacy principles it advocates.
Episodes contain cases. Each case is one self-contained sequence file.
| Episode | Cases | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Episode I — State of Digital Freedom | The Ship Has Already Hit the Iceberg | Published |
| Episode II — Pegasus | 01 Khashoggi · 02 Sánchez · 03 The 50K List · 04 Zero-Click Arms Race · 05 The Rehabilitation Tour | 5 cases published — living archive |
| Episode III — Encryption Wars | Five Eyes, EU chat control, the backdoor debate | Planned |
| Episode IV — Mass Surveillance / Snowden | Key disclosures, impact, aftermath | Planned |
| Episode V — Data Brokers | Who sells your data, how it's aggregated, opt-out illusions | Planned |
This is a living archive. New sequences are added as the story develops.
- Review existing cases and source references, including dated claims and correction needs.
- Check navigation, accessibility, and presentation across devices.
- Keep editorial and contributor guidance current and consistent with the site.
- Consider future episodes on encryption, mass surveillance, and data brokers as research and capacity allow.
The roadmap is flexible; planned episodes are not publication commitments.
See EDITORIAL.md for the full sourcing and evidence methodology, and CONTRIBUTING.md to contribute. Corrections are made transparently; git history serves as the audit trail.