Celebrating the Internet Freedom Movement at the EFF Awards

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“It would be easy to see the world as all doom and gloom when you’re tackling these issues… But we do this work because we CAN fix the internet. Our dream is that everyone in this room will not only stand up for their rights but find ten other friends to stand up with you.” – EFF’s Executive Director, Cindy Cohn.

The reason EFF hosts our annual celebration, now known as the EFF Awards, is to celebrate those in the digital rights community who are pushing for privacy and innovation online. On September 14, we did just that. We presented awards to three winners: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation. These three honorees have contributed to a world where people can access and share knowledge online, grow and be a part of communities, and express themselves to others without being spied upon.

If you missed the ceremony in San Francisco, you can still catch what happened! We recorded the show and posted it on YouTube and the Internet Archive for you to watch.

The show started with our emcee, renowned science fiction author—Cory Doctorow—welcoming everyone to the event and thanking the 30,000+ EFF members who make our work possible. Cory then confessed his age, reflecting on how good the internet used to be, while we are now stuck with what he calls the “enshitternet.” But, instead of longing for the old internet to come back, Cory looked forward to fighting for a new good internet, one

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