Your support keeps the internet open

Right now, millions of people are waking up to an internet that has been quietly closed around them. Websites blocked, messaging apps throttled, whole networks switched off for days at a time. They are cut off from news, from learning, from family abroad, and from the everyday tools the rest of us never think twice about.

For nearly two decades I have worked in AI, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure, and for more than ten of those years I have built tools with a single job: getting people past censorship. Tools that carry messages over sound when the network is gone, that hide words inside ordinary images, that map censorship as it happens. Keeping people connected is my life's work.

JavidGorz is the latest, and the one I pour the most into now: free software for Android and macOS that keeps no logs, asks for no account, and collects no data, built to keep working even when a government tries to switch the internet off completely. It is genuinely free, and it always will be for the people who rely on it. But keeping it running has a real cost, and for months I have carried that cost myself. Every contribution goes straight back into keeping it online and a step ahead of the censors.

I believe access to information is a basic human right, and that we are all bound up in one another. In the words of the poet Saadi, the children of Adam are limbs of one body; when one is in pain, the others cannot stay at rest. To reach the open internet is to reach knowledge, to reach each other, and to reach the tools of the modern world. That is not a luxury; it is part of the ground a freer, fairer future is built on.