Knowledge

The Open Internet Reference knowledge base documents organizations, lawyers, court cases, statutes, technologies, and concepts relevant to defending software rights and digital freedoms.

Ways into the Reference

• Organizations — groups that defend digital rights and support open source software companies.
• Systems Under Open-Internet Pressure — networks, messaging, and privacy tech OIR tracks for design, governance, and legal exposure.
• Lawyers — attorneys and legal scholars known for fighting censorship and protecting software rights.
• Technical Experts — engineers and scholars who explain internet architecture, cryptography, and platform policy (useful for expert consultation in litigation).
• Policymakers — legislators active on digital rights, privacy, encryption, and internet freedom.
• Law — court cases and statutes that establish precedent.
• Topics — durable concept and case-study pages (TOPIC-*), including legal doctrine and technical topics.

Generated Indexes

• Generated Glossary — all knowledge pages in alphabetical order.
• Relationship Graph — evidence-backed relationships between entities.
• Relationship Visualization — interactive graph view.
• Used For Index — which sources support which pages.
• Review Status — editorial dashboard showing verification state.
• Timeline — decisions, enactments, legislative overrides, offenses, charges, arrests, indictments, and historical events.

Standards

Every knowledge page should have:

• A durable identifier
• Structured metadata
• Clear review status
• Evidence-backed claims
• Sources
• Research debt, where applicable