2016-12-03 Donations

Time to start another of these pages. I start these about once a year and keep updating it.

2015 was not a very generously year...

I think simply paying for journalism these days should also count as a donation. After all, I could have read it for free, online.

Today I followed yet another Guardian link and saw a “support us” plea. Ok, I thought. I had already once seen such a link and registered and saw that I needed to enter an annual obligation, which I did not do. But today I saw a one-off PayPal link. That works for me.

• The Guardian (€25)

=> The Guardian

Talking about newspapers: for years, I’ve been paying double the subscription fee in order to support the local leftist weekly newspaper ¹ and the German translation of Le Monde Diplomatique ².

=> ¹ | ²

• ProWOZ (CHF 530, half of which is a “real donation”)

=> ProWOZ

Right now, it’s the Wikipedia fundraising campaign. OK, why not. I might not like their politics, and the deletionism, but in general, I must say: I use Wikipedia every single day of my life. It’s the most awesome thing on the net. It’s hard to imagine a time without it.

• Wikipedia (CHF 25)

=> Wikipedia

And I regularly donate about $10/month to the EFF and the FSF, and €120/year to the FSFE.

=> EFF | FSF | FSFE

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