#ngos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ngos, aggregated by home.social.
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@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social
@kylekulinski.bsky.socialBREAKING: #TRUMP GIVES S*X TRAFFICKERS $244 MILLION NO BID CONTRACT!!
#ngos robbed #trump #humantrafficking #dhs #ice ... the threat is coming from inside 🏠 #politics
https://youtu.be/tAQ0jUIVbLk?si=aGN9yhmDwQpwNmKP
8/15/26
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Public conversation about public problems
Our current working models of “governance” in #opensource are mostly: Monarchy - the dictator for life.Aristocracy - the devs.Oligarchy - NGOs/funders.And way out on the edge: Democracy - the users. We need better governance native to the #openweb. Let's look at this at a more personal level before the normal wider social view. Yes, in #FOSS development the devs doing the work deserve respect, and #OMN isn't arguing that users should simply demand things from volunteers. The point […]https://hamishcampbell.com/public-conversation-about-public-problems/
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Die „man darf ja nichts mehr sagen“-Partei will #Demokrat*innen den Mund verbieten.
Es fing an mit der Aufforderung, demokratische #Lehrer*innen im Internet zu denunzieren. Was folgte, waren #Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerden und öffentlicher #Pranger in einschlägigen Foren und Medien.Jetzt also Teil 2.
Nun sollen demokratische #Richter*innen eingeschüchtert werden. Dafür wurden Namens-Listen in einer rechtsextremen Postille veröffentlicht mit ihrer Dienstbezeichnung und ihrem #Gericht. Das Ziel: wer sich für ein AxD-Verbot öffentlich ausgesprochen hat, soll mit Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerden überzogen werden. Denn angeblich sei dies ein Verstoß gegen das #Mäßigungsgebot.
Das ist inhaltlich Quatsch. Auch Richter*innen sind Bürger*innen mit allen demokratischen Rechten, zu denen die #Meinungsfreiheit und das Recht auf politische Betätigung zählen. Und dass es sehr gute Gründe gibt, die AxD für rechtsextrem zu halten, bestätigen etliche Gutachten von #Verfassungsschutz und #NGOs (ja, genau: die schlimmen NGOs) – nicht weniger das Verhalten und die Äußerungen etlicher, auch führender Parteimitglieder.
Daher ist es das gute demokratische Recht auch von Richter*innen, genau das #Prüfverfahren einzufordern, das unsere Verfassung in Art. 21 GG vorsieht: den amtlichen Test auf #Verfassungsfeindlichkeit durch das #Bundesverfassungsgericht.
Dort sitzen übrigens die einzigen 16 Richter*innen, die sich tatsächlich derzeit nicht zur Verfassungsfeindlichkeit der AxD äußern sollten. Denn nur sie könnten wirklich mit der Frage richterlich befasst werden. -
The #government of #Latvia has ordered a review of state funding for local #NGOs. Earlier, PM Andris Kulbergs alleged that NGOs were wasting taxpayer money. Meanwhile, President Edgars Rinkevics called for "respectful dialogue rather than one-sided monologue" on the issue.
https://viabaltica.fi/latvia-government-orders-review-of-ngo-funding/
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Ich kann mich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, dass die aktuelle @Bundesregierung mit dem #Kabinettumbau einen weiteren großen Schritt nach rechts außen macht.
Damit wird es auch immer unsozialer und weniger Demokratie fördernd, was den braun-blauen von der AfD in die Karten spielt.
Es wird Zeit, dass diese fortwährend von rechts beschimpfte #Zivilgesellschaft und die ach so bösen #NGOs zu tausenden auf die Straße gehen.
Was wohl Frau #Reschke dazu sagt?
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Amnesty International had a report that accurately called out J.K. Rowling's institutional attack on trans women. The success writer successfully bullied the human rights organization into taking down the report.
The move is so repulsive and such a display of her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
The decision also makes me wonder how the most settled NGO responds to pressure.https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/13/amnesty-international-uk-jk-rowling-beiras-place/
#cultureWars #influence #radFems #radicalFeminists #JKRowling #transRights #AmnestyInternational #institutionsDeceive #NGOs
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#Wahnsinn! #CDU vernichtet unsere wichtigste Waffe gegen #Korruption
Die #Bundesregierung unter Friedrich #Merz will das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz faktisch abschaffen – mitten in der WM und pünktlich zum Sommerloch. Ausgerechnet das Gesetz, das Skandale wie die #Maskendeals, das #Maut-Debakel und die #Amthor-Affäre ans Licht gebracht hat. Künftig dürfen nur noch Privatpersonen mit "berechtigtem Interesse" Anfragen stellen, #NGOs wie #FragDenStaat...
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#israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #middleeast / #uno / #unrwa / #ngos / #hrw
„UNRWA remains the backbone of #humanitarianaid in Gaza. Humanitarian aid organizations active in the region have said that UNRWA is irreplaceable and undermining its role will create a dangerous — and potentially catastrophic — vacuum.“
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/10/unrwa-is-irreplaceable-in-gaza
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Seit 2020 sind knapp 2000 #NGOs in #Belarus liquidiert worden. Auch weltweit wird zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement von autokratischer und illiberaler Politik diskreditiert und unterdrückt. Ina Rumiantseva, Gründerin und Vorsitzende von Belarus Taskforce e.V. (2024) und Irina Gruschewaja, Co-Gründerin der Organisation Den Kindern von #Tschernobyl (1989) im Gespräch mit Philine Bickhardt. https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/etwas-zu-tun-heisst-hoffnung-zu-haben-wie-man-zivilgesellschaftliches-engagement-in-autokratien-organisiert/
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#Internet nach #Erdbeben- #Katastrophe:
"Der Zugang zu #Informationen ist eine Frage von Leben und Tod"
Nach den verheerenden #Erdbeben in #Venezuela versorgen #NGOs die #Menschen mit #Satelliteninternet und #Strom, um Kommunikation zu ermöglichen. Die Regierung lockert ihre Online-Zensur nur teilweise: X ist nach zwei Jahren Blockade wieder erreichbar, dutzende Nachrichtenseiten bleiben gesperrt.
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The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Freedom: The Risks of Infinito.Nexus with Native Tor Support
⚠️ Disclaimer
This article was generated entirely by artificial intelligence without editorial review.
To publish this analysis quickly, I deliberately chose to release it without manual editing or fact-checking. The purpose of this article is not to provide a polished technical specification, but to stimulate discussion about the societal, ethical, and security implications of the next generation of Infinito.Nexus with native Tor support.
Some technical assumptions, predictions, or conclusions may therefore be incomplete, inaccurate, or open to debate. They should be understood as informed analysis rather than verified fact.
The scenarios described in this article are intended to illustrate both the opportunities and the risks of increasingly accessible privacy-preserving infrastructure. They do not advocate, encourage, or endorse illegal activity. The same technologies that can strengthen digital sovereignty, protect journalists, human rights organizations, researchers, and political opposition operating under censorship can also be misused by malicious actors.
The goal of this article is to encourage an open discussion about the consequences of making powerful decentralized infrastructure available to a much broader audience. As with encryption, Linux, Git, peer-to-peer networks, and the Internet itself, technological progress creates both new freedoms and new responsibilities.
Please read this article critically, verify important claims independently, and view it as a starting point for discussion rather than a definitive statement on the future of decentralized infrastructure.
Technology is neutral.
Whether it empowers democratic resistance or enables organized crime depends on the people using it.
With native Tor integration, Infinito.Nexus has the potential to fundamentally change how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed. It could become possible for anyone to create a completely private digital ecosystem with only minimal technical knowledge.
That prospect is both exciting — and concerning.
A World Beyond Traditional Surveillance
Today’s Internet relies heavily on centralized infrastructure.
Governments can subpoena cloud providers.
Internet Service Providers can monitor traffic.
Hosting companies know where servers are located.
DNS providers can suspend domains.
Payment providers can freeze accounts.
Social media platforms can remove communities.
Tor changes that equation.
By integrating Tor directly into the infrastructure layer instead of treating it as an optional add-on, organizations could operate entirely within Onion Services.
No public IP addresses.
No public DNS.
No visible server locations.
No conventional attack surface.
Infrastructure that was previously easy to discover suddenly becomes practically invisible to anyone outside the Tor network.
From Old Smartphones to Invisible Infrastructure
Perhaps the most disruptive consequence of native Tor support is that almost anyone could become an anonymous infrastructure operator.
Instead of renting a VPS or purchasing expensive server hardware, users could simply take an old smartphone, install a Linux distribution such as Droidian, deploy Infinito.Nexus, and immediately have a functional server reachable exclusively through Tor.
Modern smartphones already contain everything traditionally required for a small server:
- multicore ARM processors
- flash storage
- Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity
- extremely low power consumption
- integrated batteries acting as an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Unlike conventional servers, smartphones can continue operating during short power outages without requiring any additional hardware.
Because all communication occurs through Onion Services, the physical location of the device becomes significantly harder to determine than traditionally hosted infrastructure.
A server could operate from:
- an apartment
- an office
- a vehicle
- a backpack
- a cabin
- virtually anywhere with Internet access
Instead of racks in a datacenter, entire organizations could operate from inexpensive commodity hardware.
Infrastructure that once required thousands of dollars could eventually fit inside a jacket pocket.
Organization Beyond Censorship
Perhaps the most transformative consequence of native Tor support is not anonymity itself — it is organization.
Modern democratic movements require far more than encrypted messaging. They need complete digital infrastructure.
Imagine a group deploying the following services exclusively as Onion Services:
- Matrix for encrypted communication
- Nextcloud for document sharing
- OpenProject for task management
- Git for software development
- Wiki systems for documentation
- forums for public discussion
- video conferencing
- identity management with single sign-on
Every service is accessible only through Tor.
There are no public IP addresses.
There are no publicly reachable domains.
There is no central cloud provider that can simply terminate the infrastructure.
For political opposition movements operating under authoritarian governments, this could fundamentally change what is possible.
In countries such as Russia or Iran, governments have repeatedly attempted to restrict independent media, block communication platforms, and pressure hosting providers into taking services offline. A decentralized infrastructure based on Tor Onion Services makes these traditional forms of censorship considerably more difficult.
If one server disappears, another can be brought online using the same deployment automation and cryptographic identities.
Instead of relying on a single datacenter, an organization could distribute its infrastructure across many independently operated devices, including repurposed smartphones running Linux distributions such as Droidian. Every device becomes part of the organization’s digital backbone while remaining reachable only through the Tor network.
This significantly lowers the barrier to building resilient communication networks for journalists, NGOs, researchers, humanitarian organizations, and democratic opposition movements.
Building Invisible Organizations
Imagine an organization deploying:
- Identity Management
- Matrix
- Nextcloud
- Git
- Video Conferencing
- Project Management
- Forums
- Social Networks
- AI Infrastructure
Every service exists exclusively as an Onion Service.
Employees connect only through Tor.
No public domains.
No public IP addresses.
No externally visible services.
From the perspective of the public Internet, the organization barely exists.
A Powerful Tool for Democracy
For many people around the world, this would be an extraordinary step toward digital sovereignty.
Political opposition operating under authoritarian governments often faces:
- Internet censorship
- mass surveillance
- infrastructure seizures
- domain confiscation
- ISP monitoring
- targeted cyber attacks
A hidden smartphone consuming only a few watts of electricity could host secure communications for an activist movement.
Journalists could publish anonymously.
NGOs could coordinate without relying on commercial cloud providers.
Entire communities could communicate through infrastructure that is extremely difficult to discover or disable.
History repeatedly demonstrates that secure communication is one of the foundations of democratic resistance.
The Other Side of the Coin
Unfortunately, technology does not distinguish between good and bad actors.
The exact same infrastructure could also be deployed by:
- organized cybercrime
- ransomware groups
- illegal marketplaces
- extremist organizations
- terrorist networks
- large-scale fraud operations
- illegal trafficking
If deploying anonymous infrastructure becomes as simple as flashing Linux onto an old smartphone and clicking through an installation wizard, the barrier to entry changes dramatically.
What once required experienced Linux administrators could eventually become accessible to almost anyone.
A hidden smartphone server could host:
- a secure school collaboration platform
or
- an anonymous criminal marketplace.
Technically, there may be little difference.
The software cannot distinguish between them.
Risks for Democratic Societies
For democratic societies such as Germany, this presents a difficult challenge.
Security agencies often rely on information obtained from hosting providers, cloud operators, domain registries, DNS providers, or centralized communication platforms during investigations.
Infrastructure that exists exclusively as Tor Onion Services reduces the availability of these traditional investigative paths.
This can make investigations more difficult and more resource-intensive, especially when organizations are technically competent and operate their own infrastructure.
A terrorist cell, extremist group, or organized criminal network could theoretically operate:
- private Matrix servers
- encrypted file storage
- internal forums
- planning boards
- identity systems
- software repositories
- anonymous web services
all without relying on public-facing infrastructure.
That does not mean such groups become impossible to detect.
Tor does not make people invisible.
Law enforcement can still use endpoint forensics, undercover operations, financial investigations, human intelligence, surveillance of physical logistics, and mistakes made by suspects.
But the balance changes.
The stronger privacy technologies become, the harder traditional bulk surveillance and provider-based investigations become.
This is exactly why the same tools that protect dissidents in authoritarian states can also create serious challenges for law enforcement in democratic states.
The Democratization of Anonymous Infrastructure
Historically, operating Onion Services required substantial expertise.
Administrators needed to understand:
- Linux
- networking
- reverse proxies
- DNS
- Tor
- certificates
- firewalls
- application integration
Automation changes everything.
Eventually, the entire deployment process could become:
- Install Droidian on an old smartphone.
- Install Infinito.Nexus.
- Select the desired applications.
- Enable Tor support.
- Click Deploy.
Minutes later, an entire private infrastructure could be online.
No cloud provider.
No VPS.
No static IP.
No public DNS.
Infrastructure that previously required experienced system administrators becomes accessible to ordinary users.
That democratization is both empowering and dangerous.
Open Source Has Always Faced This Dilemma
This is not a new ethical problem.
Encryption protects:
- journalists
- dissidents
- criminals
VPNs protect:
- activists
- ransomware operators
Git is used to build:
- medical software
- malware
Linux powers:
- hospitals
- botnets
Artificial Intelligence can:
- accelerate scientific discovery
- generate phishing campaigns
Technology itself has no morality.
People do.
Infinito.Nexus Is Infrastructure
Infinito.Nexus is not being developed to create hidden criminal networks.
Its purpose is to simplify the deployment of sovereign, self-hosted infrastructure.
Native Tor support simply extends that philosophy.
The software itself does not decide who uses it.
The responsibility remains with those who deploy it.
The Ethical Challenge
Should powerful privacy technologies be withheld because they could be abused?
Or should society accept that technologies capable of protecting freedom will inevitably also be exploited by malicious actors?
There is no perfect answer.
Throughout history, almost every revolutionary communication technology — from the printing press to encrypted messaging — has been used for both constructive and destructive purposes.
Tor is no different.
Neither is Infinito.Nexus.
Technical Design
Native Tor support is currently being designed as a core networking feature of Infinito.Nexus.
Instead of treating Tor as an optional add-on, every deployed application can automatically receive its own Onion Service while remaining fully integrated into the deployment framework.
The current design proposal is publicly available:
Native Tor Support Requirements
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-core/blob/feature/svc-net-tor/docs/requirements/031-svc-net-tor-onion.mdRelated projects:
Infinito.Nexus Core
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-coreHetzner Arch LUKS
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luksLinux Image Manager
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/linux-image-managerThese projects together lay the groundwork for a future where deploying fully encrypted, self-hosted, Tor-native infrastructure becomes almost as simple as installing a mobile app.
Conclusion
Native Tor support has the potential to fundamentally reshape how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed.
For the first time, individuals, NGOs, journalists, companies, and political opposition movements could build private digital ecosystems with remarkably little technical expertise.
At the same time, the same technology could lower the barrier for anonymous criminal infrastructure.
A discarded smartphone running Linux could become a resilient, battery-backed server hidden almost anywhere.
That reality is both inspiring and unsettling.
Like encryption, Linux, Git, VPNs, and the Internet itself, Infinito.Nexus is infrastructure.
Infrastructure does not decide how it is used.
People do.
The challenge for society is therefore not whether such technology should exist, but how we choose to live in a world where powerful privacy tools become accessible to everyone.
#Activism #AnonymousCommunication #AnonymousHosting #AnonymousInfrastructure #AnonymousServers #CensorshipResistance #CircumventingCensorship #Cybersecurity #Decentralization #DecentralizedInfrastructure #DevOps #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignty #Droidian #EndToEndEncryption #FreedomOfSpeech #FullDiskEncryption #git #HumanRights #IdentityManagement #InfinitoNexus #InformationSecurity #InfrastructureAsCode #infrastructureAutomation #InternetCensorship #Iran #Journalism #Linux #LinuxServer #LUKS #Matrix #MatrixServer #MobileServer #NetworkSecurity #Nextcloud #NGOs #OnionServices #OpenSource #OpenProject #Privacy #PrivacyTechnology #RemoteUnlock #Russia #SecureCommunication #SecureInfrastructure #SelfHosting #SelfSovereignInfrastructure #SelfHostedInfrastructure #ServerHardening #SingleSignOn #SmartphoneServer #SSHOverTor #Tor #TorHiddenServices #TorHosting #TorNetwork -
Ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wären illegale Maskendeals nie ans Licht gekommen. Genau dieses Recht wollen CDU, CSU und SPD jetzt faktisch abschaffen. Das dürfen wir nicht zulassen. Jetzt unterschreiben: 👇 #IFG #Informationsschutzgesetz
#Presse #Medien #NGOshttps://weact.campact.de/petitions/spd-stoppt-den-frontalangriff-auf-die-informationsfreiheit
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Sending any kind of donation to #Venezuela in support after the earthquakes is only worth it if you bypass the government. They are not helping us at all, the military are just standing there trying to control the situation, the police are literally looting buildings (both fallen and standing). Reach out to NGOs and the people.
#earthquake #regime #rant #politics #ngos #news #vzla #southamerica
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Hat #Microsoft etwa die Daten von 140.000 Non-Profits gelöscht? Anfang Juni wurden die kostenlosen Lizenzen auf bezahlte Subscriptions umgestellt und dabei ist wohl ziemlich was schiefgegangen. Ein Support-Mitarbeiter meinte etwas von 140.000 betroffenen Organisationen und von einer Retention-Policy von nur 3 Tagen.
Im Netz finden sich einige Anhaltspunkte:
- https://talk.lagedernation.org/t/wenn-non-profit-lizenzen-auslaufen-wie-unser-verein-durch-microsoft-ploetzlich-alle-daten-verlor/33531
- https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/answers/questions/5921489/dringende-frage-sharepoint-daten-nach-ablauf-von-mKann man sich nicht ausdenken.
Einmal mit Profis… 🤣
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Japan is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/02/japan/japanese-language-education/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ministryofeducation #tokyo #kawasaki #hamamatsu #ngos #languageteachers #language #immigration
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@autonomysolidarity @[email protected]
Das werden über kurz oder lang ALLE sein, die für unsere demokratischen Rechte eintreten. Und die auf echtem #Klimaschutz bestehen und die Migrat*innen willkommen heißen möchten. Die für die Einhaltung unseres #Grundgesetzes immer wieder aufstehen und es verteidigen gegen ALLE Angriffe.
Auf der Liste garantiert auch alle unbequemen #NGOs.
Irgendwann ist dann garantiert auch die Partei #DieLinke dran. Die ist den Mächtigen schon lange ein Dorn im Auge.
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Thank you all 🫶Interested in becoming a sponsor? By supporting the State of the Map 2026, you can:
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