I've looked at what this is, but it's not clear to me. Is this an alternative to Tor? How can it enable users in China to surf the internet for free? Is it some kind of VPN? A short intro is welcome! :-)
That's the idea with Freedombox. Host your own email server, website, chat server. Servers nowadays are called "clouds", so the idea is to have a "cloud" in your own home, under your control.
It's very similar to arkOS:
https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/goals/index.en.html
But nothing on this page is clear exactly which software packages are included, or how the distributed filesystem is federated, etc.
Here are the packages that are currently included: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/tree/master/plinth/modu...
That's tor, owncloud, openVPN, mumble, pagekite, xmpp, ikiwiki, shaarli, transmission, roundcube.
There are also plenty of ideas for new applications/services/protocols, like replacing DNS, that would be a good fit.
Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSLBvwyUEs
Transcript / Highlights / More https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations#A20...:
Really worth watching.
It’s a distribution to run on a small “plug server” in your home.