At Distributed Press, we recently joined forces with the advocacy group Fight for the Future to empower their campaigns. In our collaboration, we created distributed versions of their campaign's websites, ensuring they remain accessible and censorship-resistant through peer-to-peer (P2P) and decentralized protocols.
We started with their website "Keep Khan", an initiative to support FTC Chair Lina Khan's efforts to protect the American public from monopolistic practices and corporate exploitation.
After testing the distribution with this campaign site, Fight for the Future wrote their own script to automate the publication of all their sites with Distributed Press. Up to February 2025, more than 50 initiatives are grounded in distributed foundations, including highly relevant and current campaigns like No FCC speech police - to protect the Federal Communications Commission from becoming a political weapon.
Multiple options to access a campaign:
Since copies of each website were put on many different Peer-to-Peer data sharing systems, there are several options to access them.
For example, to access Keep Khan readers can:
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Visit the URL
https://www.keepkhan.com/ -
Access Web3 systems using a gateway in any web browser
https://www-keepkhan-com.hyper.hypha.coop/
https://www-keepkhan-com.ipns.ipfs.hypha.coop/ -
On the Hyper network using Agregore Browser
hyper://keepkhan.com -
On the IPFS network using Agregore Browser
ipfs://keepkhan.com
Check all the amazing campaigns you can participate in through regular URLs or explore accesing them via distributed protocols.
A legacy of advocacy: Fight for the Future
Fight for the Future has been at the forefront of the digital rights movement, through its creative and impactful campaigns to tackle complex issues. As an organization focused on technology and the rules governing it, they’ve led pivotal initiatives, including:
Net neutrality battles: Organizing global action in 2017, they mobilized millions to defend net neutrality, rallying tech giants like Reddit, Netflix, and Mozilla to join the fight.
Privacy protections: The Don’t Break Our Phones campaign challenged the FBI’s demand for Apple to compromise user security—a fight they won, setting a critical precedent for digital privacy.
Social justice tech: Championed causes like banning facial recognition and opposing Amazon's surveillance technologies, ensuring technology serves freedom and equality rather than oppression.
Fight for the Future's initiatives champion the use of technology as a tool for liberation and public interest, rather than oppression or economic exploitation of the audiences. By taking bold stances against powerful interests and exposing practices that undermine basic rights and democratic values, they face significant risks of attacks or censorship.
The Distributed Press Mission
Distributed Press was born to build a more open, equitable, and censorship-resistant internet for authors and publishers everywhere, no matter their tech literacy or skills. We help authors and organizations ensure their work remains under their control, accessible to their audiences, and resilient to attacks and technical challenges. Our tools fight link rot, bypass censorship and foster a more decentralized digital ecosystem, by leveraging distributed web protocols in order to avoid single points of failure.
In today's complex digital sphere, we can't be naive about the animosity towards initiatives that defend basic human rights and democratic values. Organizations that work with environmental defense, LGBTQIA+ rights, resistance against corporate exploitation and access to public information are in permanent risk of digital attacks. But sociopolitical persecution is not the only threat for them: sometimes technical hurdles, as simple as not being able to pay continuously for hosting, are just as detrimental to keep their content online. Digital content is fragile, and this means that a crucial part of important stories and knowledge are getting lost in time and disappearing.
We want all this important initiatives and their content to be protected and to have a containment network in the DWeb. Distributed and peer-to-peer protocols are the alternative to our traditional web rotting along time.
You can read about another case we participated in, this time collaborating with Starling Lab to recover and preserve with integrity two photojournalism projects that had been taken down
If you also want to create distributed versions of your sites, you can do it for free here