Civil Rights Defenders launches Off.guard - the first tool created to share vital information when internet shuts down - Civil Rights Defenders
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Access to the internet can sometimes be the difference between life and death. Therefore, Civil Rights Defenders is now launching the new digital tool Off.guard. Off.guard allows private individuals, journalists and human rights defenders to share important information in countries where deliberate disruptions of the internet occur during elections, civil unrest, crises, and war. Deliberate […]

Internet shutdowns or disruptions in connection with armed conflicts and mass demonstrations have led to people not being able to communicate or report abuses, which has caused further insecurity, violence and violations of human rights. Off.guard allows private individuals, journalists and human rights defenders to share information when and where deliberate disruptions of the occur.

  • @loki@lemmy.ml
    7•1 year ago

    It seems to be a website with a stream of tweets? How are people supposed to view or communicate from the page when internet shuts down? someone fill me in.

    • @Crumble@lemmy.ml
      5•1 year ago

      Basically just a tool that runs in the background and keeps your feed up to date. When you have no connection at all, you will no longer receive updates, but still have acces to content up until that point.

      From their website:

      Off.guard is built using a module called service worker. By accepting push notifications in “settings”, Off.guard will be able to remain active in the background of your browser and continue to update. Even when a poor connection is detected your feed with information updates using web-push notifications, without the need of your attention. In case the internet would be shut down, off.guard always saves the created feed using cookies.