In periods like this one, when governments seem to ignore the will of the people as easily as companies violate their users’ trust, it’s important to draw strength from your friends. EFF is glad to have allies in the online freedom movement like the Internet Archive. Right now, donations to the Archive will be matched automatically by the Pineapple Fund.

Founded 21 years ago by Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive’s mission is to provide free and universal access to knowledge through its vast digital library. Their work has helped capture the massive—yet now too often ephemeral—proliferation of human creativity and knowledge online. Popular tools like the Wayback Machine have allowed people to do things like view deleted and altered webpages and recover public statements to hold officials accountable.

EFF and the Internet Archive have stood together in a number of digital civil liberties cases. We fought back when the Archive became the recipient of a National Security Letter, a tool often used by the FBI to force Internet providers and telecommunications companies to turn over the names, addresses, and other records about their customers, and frequently accompanied by a gag order. EFF and the Archive have worked together to fight threats to free expression, online innovation, and the free flow of information on the Internet on numerous occasions. We have even collaborated on community gatherings like EFF’s own Pwning Tomorrow speculative fiction launch and the recent Barlow Symposium exploring EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow’s philosophy of the Internet.

EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow with the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle.

This month, the Bitcoin philanthropist behind the Pineapple Fund is challenging the world to support the Internet Archive and the movement for online freedom. The Pineapple Fund will match up to $1 million in donations to the Archive through April 30. (EFF was also the grateful recipient of a $1 million Pineapple Fund grant in January of this year.) If you would like to support the future of libraries and preserve online knowledge for generations to come, consider giving to the Internet Archive today. We salute the Internet Archive for supporting privacy, free expression, and the open web.