About Freda

Freda is a digital autonomy advocate and is currently studying her MA in International Politics and Human Rights. She works with Activists Without Borders in article writing and event hosting. With a mission to restore individual and community autonomy, she persistently strikes against the lock-in effect of Big Tech proprietary services and shares open source alternatives.

Stop Palantir and Save Agency with Open Source Alternatives

In the past few years, there was a significant increase in cooperation between UK governmental institutions with Palantir, an US private corporation specialised in data integration and analysis. This included the Palantir’s contracts with the National Health Service (NHS), the Financial [...]

By |2026-08-08T14:35:32+00:0003/08/2026|

Autonomy Now: Restore Your Full Agency amid the Surveillance Era with Open-Source Digital Tools

Last month, France decided to cease Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom from the administration by 2027. This echoed plans by a German state, Schleswig-Holstein, to switch their system software in 2024 to an open-source alternative such as Linux, Nextcloud, or LibreOffice [...]

By |2026-03-03T21:33:28+00:0001/03/2026|

Crises at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan: The drive to backward human rights establishment

On 21st January 2025, Legislative Yuan of Taiwan (the Republic of China; ROC) pass third reading of the 2025 government’s general budget plan, which cut 6.64% of the budget, reaching new historic high, that is 207.5 billon TWD (approximately 5 million [...]

By |2026-02-22T12:24:29+00:0028/02/2025|

Post-A4 Movement China: The Ban Great Firewall Movement shored up by the silenced activists

On the 13th October 2022, a being stood on the Sitong Bridge(四通桥) in Beijing. He hung two banners on the bridge and set fire to the tires for attention-drawing purpose. “I want to eat. I want to be free. I want [...]

By |2024-09-25T13:35:36+00:0025/09/2024|

5th Anniversary of the Hong Kong 831 Incident: Suppression Continues to Grow Through Unjust Trials of Protestors

The 831 Prince Edward Incident was regarded as one of the most shocking incidents of the movement since it explicitly presented the unjust violence of the police force toward civilians, whether they were protestors or not, which indicated how the government [...]

By |2026-02-22T12:24:41+00:0031/08/2024|
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