Riseup
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Riseup is a volunteer-run social movement organization providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services to support activists engaged in various social justice causes and opposition to capitalism. This organization was launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and quickly grew to millions of accounts.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Riseup Networks
- Company.logo
- Riseup Network Rainbow Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.location_city
- Seattle, Washington
- Company.location_country
- USA
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.products
- RiseupVPN, Riseup Red
- Network service provider.child
- yes
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Riseup is a volunteer-run social movement organization providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services to support activists engaged in various social justice causes and opposition to capitalism. This organization was launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and quickly grew to millions of accounts.
As of 2013, Riseup features 6 million subscribers spread across 14,000 lists. Their projects have included the Stop Watching Us campaign against global surveillance disclosures revealed by Edward Snowden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riseup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.