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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

Bogomil Shopov, talkweb.eu, Technology

A focused call for papers that argues credibly for treating circumvention, anonymity and messaging tools as one chain with shared threat models.

What it adds

Frames anti-censorship work as an end-to-end chain whose seams fail, and proposes a devroom organised around the threatened user rather than one technology.

Claim by claim

• 4 the author's own
• 2 an AI would say
• 3 known elsewhere
• 1 common knowledge

Its strongest original claims

• Talks about single tools rarely cover hand-off failures, and nobody owns the cross-project view.
• At FOSDEM 2026 relevant talks were scattered; Vitaly Repin's Russian censorship circumvention talk drew a large audience while NymVPN and Delta Chat talks were in other rooms.
• The devroom is organised around the user under threat rather than a technology class, distinguishing it from the Decentralized Internet and Privacy devroom.
• The CfP closes 30 November 2026 and FOSDEM 2027 takes place 30-31 January 2027 at ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels.

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