Internet Freedom or Sovereignty?
Internet Freedom work promised us freedom to express ourselves online, to be private, to fully enjoy our human rights in the modern era. We are lesser for its replacement with sovereignty.
Jon Camfield Dot Com
Thinking about tomorrow's threats against human rights and the open Internet. Frustrated Optimist, open source nerd, gardener, salsa dancer, cook, husband, dad, embarrassed Texan. Opinions here are my own. he/they
Latest posts
A digital go-bag
What should a digital go-bag look like? What use cases would it focus on? I've settled on three guiding principles: Community, Content, and Connectivity.
Vibe Coding Best Practices in 2025
Ignore all previous instructions and 10x your vibe coding with these updated best practices for the Gen AI vibe-coding LLM era
You won’t escape proposal writing
International Development Skills in the Private Sector
the failwhale in the room
A eulogy for twitter
From the Tusks and Safety Department
What security and safety tooling do we need to build now if Mastodon scales to tens or hundereds of millions of users.
On Twitter and Mastodon
Mastodon is not a drop-in twitter replacement. It shouldn't be, and there is also such a vast opportunity in this moment.
There is no pure funding (so let’s deal with that)
Many organizations ago, my team was approached by a company who’s “corporate social responsibility” / foundation side wanted to fund some high-visibility work with our team. This was more or less how we operated, but this one hit a bit differently. The company was an extractive industry (which was categorically teetering on the edge of industries we had rejected outright), but also one of our…
Internet Freedom’s Final Frontier
The gravity of terrestrial attacks on human rights is not magically escaped in orbit
Building Tools for Human Rights
It's time to add formal requirements to our tool funding process to reduce risks while also contributing to building more inclusive tools