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Why the Open Technology Fund Is Worth Saving

The government-funded nonprofit has helped millions living under authoritarianism access the internet safely.
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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch. (Photos by: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images; Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

During a trip to China before the pandemic, I woke up early on my first morning in the hotel and turned on CNN International while getting ready. I wasn’t paying close attention to the broadcast, but I couldn’t help but notice when, after about three seconds of a story about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the television in my room cut to black.

Grant Mullins is an attorney in Nashville and formerly served as senior counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees from 2017 to 2020.

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