Digital Defiance is about defying mediocrity in code and standing up and providing value to the world in the form of open source and free speech which forms the backbone of modern society in a way that I don’t think most people truly comprehend.
An incredible amount of infrastructure is riding on the work of a handful of dedicated individuals over collective years of work and dedication to a cause without any expectation of credit or compensation. This is a defiance of the norms of society and a statement about the way things should be.
Recent events have stressed the importance of free speech, free society, free elections, trustworthy infrastructure, and auditable, testable, verifiable code at the core of it all.
Systems like Signal are imperative in these times.
Digital Defiance is working on just such a system with roots based on the Owner Free Filesystem which was designed to anonymize content and keep it free and free maintainers and storage contributers from copyright concerns. It can function in a capacity to preserve anonymous speech as well. And yet owned data can be maintained as well.
We are also working on digital voting systems and other governmental infrastructure systems to provide secure, auditable, transparent government with digital law and digital rights and mathematically enforced rule of law.
Please stand with us and support our efforts. This research isn’t free and costs considerable money and time to do. There are numerous expenses involved to keep the lights on.
In Defiance, We Stand
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Posted: February 3, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
Digital Defiance is about defying mediocrity in code and standing up and providing value to the world in the form of open source and free speech which forms the backbone of modern society in a way that I don’t think most people truly comprehend.
An incredible amount of infrastructure is riding on the work of a handful of dedicated individuals over collective years of work and dedication to a cause without any expectation of credit or compensation. This is a defiance of the norms of society and a statement about the way things should be.
Recent events have stressed the importance of free speech, free society, free elections, trustworthy infrastructure, and auditable, testable, verifiable code at the core of it all.
Systems like Signal are imperative in these times.
Digital Defiance is working on just such a system with roots based on the Owner Free Filesystem which was designed to anonymize content and keep it free and free maintainers and storage contributers from copyright concerns. It can function in a capacity to preserve anonymous speech as well. And yet owned data can be maintained as well.
We are also working on digital voting systems and other governmental infrastructure systems to provide secure, auditable, transparent government with digital law and digital rights and mathematically enforced rule of law.
Please stand with us and support our efforts. This research isn’t free and costs considerable money and time to do. There are numerous expenses involved to keep the lights on.
Thank you for your support.
Jessica Mulein
President
Digital Defiance
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