About Digital Independence
About this project
digital-independence.org is a non-commercial publication on digital independence — fact-based, source-driven, freely accessible.
Editorial principle
Digital independence is not a political position. It is the non-negotiable human right to freedom, inviolability and self-determination — applied to the digital world.
No individual and no organisation should depend on digital infrastructure that can be revoked at any time — through government intervention, licence changes or unilateral decisions by a provider. This principle holds regardless of origin, location or political system.
We do not represent any party, any country or any faction. Our measure is a single question: can a person or a business retain control over their own digital infrastructure?
Facts and analysis
Our articles are built on verifiable facts and primary sources — the actual regulation text, the actual survey data, the actual deployment report. Where we analyse, contextualise or assess, this is apparent. Both have their place: facts provide the foundation, analysis provides the context.
Every verifiable claim across all articles is extracted into our Fact Check — with source links, trust scores and an open invitation to challenge any statement. The trust score reflects how well a claim is sourced:
| Trust | Meaning | Criterion |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | Fully sourced | 3+ independent serious sources |
| 85 % | Strongly sourced | 2 independent serious sources |
| 80 % | Sourced (primary) | 1 official primary source (legislation, company IR, official statistics) |
| 70 % | Sourced (secondary) | 1 serious secondary source (established news outlet, Wikipedia with citation) |
| 60 % | Editorial conclusion | Logically derived from sourced sub-claims — reasoning shown in tooltip |
| 50 % | Unsourced, verifiable | No source assigned yet, but easily checkable |
| 40 % | Critical — unsourced | Statistic or financial figure without source |
Claims at 60 % are not opinions — they are logical conclusions whose premises are individually sourced. Hover over them in the article to see the full derivation.
For the full reasoning behind this project: Why digital-independence.org?
Our approach
No affiliate links. We do not earn from recommendations. Products and providers are evaluated solely on factual grounds.
Use-case differentiation. The right answer for a federal agency is different from the right answer for a ten-person engineering team. We state this explicitly rather than making blanket recommendations.
Open Source evaluations. Honest — including the weaknesses. We evaluate architecture and long-term maintainability, not just features.
Perspective. We write from a European context — where regulatory frameworks such as the CLOUD Act, GDPR and EU procurement rules are immediately relevant. The principle of digital independence, however, is universal.
How to contribute
This is an open project. If you have expertise in any of our topic areas and want to contribute fact-based content, get in touch via the contact page.