A long-term editorial archive documenting digital freedom, privacy erosion, surveillance, censorship, and related technologies through unconventional interactive narratives.
Read it now — no install required.
Digital freedom is being negotiated in real time. Encryption backdoors. Mass surveillance. Data brokers selling behavioral profiles. Each concession is small, incremental, and rarely debated in public.
This project documents it. Not as opinion pieces or hot takes, but as sourced narratives that stand on their own. Every claim backed by public records. Every quote verified. The format is secondary to the facts.
Each sequence opens with a terminal-style hook — a short, cinematic text animation that sets the tone. It then unfolds into a full editorial article: sourced, citable, and linkable per paragraph. Data sections provide cross-source comparisons so readers can see the full picture without relying on a single index.
The site has zero third-party runtime dependencies — self-hosted fonts, no analytics, no trackers. It practices the privacy principles it advocates.
Episodes contain cases. Each case is one self-contained sequence file.
| Episode | Cases | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Episode I — State of Digital Freedom | The Ship Has Already Hit the Iceberg | Published |
| Episode II — Pegasus | 01 Khashoggi · 02 Sánchez · 03 The 50K List · 04 Zero-Click Arms Race · 05 The Rehabilitation Tour | 5 cases published — living archive |
| Episode III — Encryption Wars | Five Eyes, EU chat control, the backdoor debate | Planned |
| Episode IV — Mass Surveillance / Snowden | Key disclosures, impact, aftermath | Planned |
| Episode V — Data Brokers | Who sells your data, how it's aggregated, opt-out illusions | Planned |
This is a living archive. New sequences are added as the story develops.
- Foundation hardening — audit existing sequences, standardize evidence discipline, improve source provenance
- Information architecture — episode and case navigation, publication and review metadata
- Editorial expansion — Episodes III–V (see above)
- Interactive improvements — richer terminal interaction only where useful; accessibility
- Community — public editorial methodology, contribution standards, corrections policy
Deployment stays on GitHub Pages; the project has no paid-hosting migration planned.
See EDITORIAL.md for the full sourcing and evidence methodology, and CONTRIBUTING.md to contribute. Corrections are made transparently; git history serves as the audit trail.