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Also known as riseup.net

Riseup is a volunteer-run social movement organization providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services to support activists engaged in various social justice causes and opposition to capitalism. This organization was launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and quickly grew to millions of accounts.

Key facts

Company.name
Riseup Networks
Company.logo
Riseup Network Rainbow Logo.svg
Company.logo_size
150
Company.type
Private
Company.location_city
Seattle, Washington
Company.location_country
USA
Company.area_served
Worldwide
Company.products
RiseupVPN, Riseup Red
Network service provider.child
yes

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Wikidata facts

Headquarters
Seattle
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product or material produced
instant messaging
street address
Riseup Networks, PO Box 4282, Seattle, WA 98194 USA
social media followers
1863
public key fingerprint
4E07 9126 8F7C 67EA BE88 F1B0 3043 E2B7 139A 768E
inception
1999-00-00
email address
mailto:[email protected]
IRC channel URL
irc://chat.indymedia.org:6697/riseup
website account on
diaspora*
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Riseup is a volunteer-run social movement organization providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services to support activists engaged in various social justice causes and opposition to capitalism. This organization was launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and quickly grew to millions of accounts.

As of 2013, Riseup features 6 million subscribers spread across 14,000 lists. Their projects have included the Stop Watching Us campaign against global surveillance disclosures revealed by Edward Snowden.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riseup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.