The submission deadline for this year's Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) workshop is coming up in ten days.

The workshop will be co-located with Usenix Security in Santa Clara in August.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci19

Here's the blurb:

"The Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) workshop, now in its 9th year, is a vibrant, peer-reviewed event dedicated to bringing together researchers and practitioners from technology, law, and policy who are working on a wide variety of censorship-related topics. This includes direct censorship mechanisms---both technical and legal---as well as indirect methods of censorship through coordinated harassment campaigns and online astroturfing that may be used to drown out and/or chill free expression."

We encouraged Susan and Michael, the chairs this year, to make it their own by adding the areas they find most fascinating, and they picked the harassment and astroturfing angle, which I agree needs much more attention from both the research and practitioner worlds.

So, you should submit your workshop paper!

And even if you don't submit, you should come to the workshop. There will be a bunch of great censorship circumvention and censorship measurement people there, including as usual some Tor people.

--Roger