Yeah, people seem to be missing a lot of context especially on world liberty congress Here’s a TLDR: Leopoldo was the mentor of Juan Guaido, the US-backed interim president of Venezuela that looted the country for Billions of $ WLC (& HRF) strongly support Maria Machado, the Venezuelan opposition candidate who advocates for the US bombing her own people & condones its war crimes executing civilians at sea (& recently gifted her nobel peace prize to trump, lol) WLC vice-president (&former HRF chairman) is Gary Kasparov, a raging Islamophobe who still says bombing Iraq back into the stoneage killing hundreds of thousands of civilians was the right thing to do WLC president is Masih Alinejad, a US financed “activist” who works for Voice of America, which was established as a propaganda outlet by the USG during WW2 with close ties to the CIA - she’s received close to 1M USD in USG funding for her work and is a big advocate for US intervention in Iran, especially to reinstall the pahlavi monarchy Reza Pahlavi works directly with WLC, who proclaims himself to be the next leader of Iran - he is the son of the US-installed Iranian Shah after the CIA toppled its democratically elected leader who became infamous for various human rights violations, incl. torturing, disappearing & murdering journalists, opposition and dissidents, oppressing freedom of the press & freedom of religion, forbidding all political opposition The problem I see (and I dont hold anyone responsible for working with them for) is that these organizations are the only ones financing “freedom tech” - no other org in this space finances journalism/activism/education, so they’ve become the singular source on any geopolitical definition of “freedom” that is dangerously skewed to support US interests Just find it very sad to see good people building good products who are psyopped into thinking that they are supporting human rights when in reality it is very much the opposite

That’s not what this is about. This project is open-source and focused on protecting people, not promoting governments, wars, or regime change. Tools don’t take sides, they give individuals the ability to communicate, organize, and stay safe. We work with human rights defenders from very different backgrounds and views. The common ground is simple: no one should be persecuted for speaking, organizing, or existing online. You don’t have to agree with everyone involved to support open tools and basic human rights.