This guest post is from Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer for Human Rights Foundation.

The biggest change introduced thanks to this project is a generic publish-subscribe mechanism for delivering messages internally. It is meant to help us improve the modularity of our code by avoiding direct coupling between modules that don't actually need to invoke one another.

In the recent years, the international debate around human rights started to include and analyze our relations and interactions with technology, including how we are able or not able to exercise our human rights when we're on the internet. We believe human rights apply to all spaces we occupy, offline and online.

The video from my DEF CON 2019 talk ("The Tor Censorship Arms Race: The Next Chapter") is now up. I'll be happy to answer questions about the talk, or about the censorship team in general, over the next few days in the comments.

Tor Browser 9.5a3 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our

Tor Browser 9.0.2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our

I'd like to tell you about some of our work your contributions can help over the coming year. I'll be focusing on things that my team works on in the "tor" program itself.

This year’s campaign, Take Back the Internet, has been a great success so far. Thank you to the more than 3,000 donors who have helped us raise over $130,000 that will become over $260,000 with Mozilla’s match. This year we set an ambitious goal because the demand for privacy is growing and the demand on the Tor network and our small staff is also increasing.