The civic platform Manif.app goes international by renaming itself weprotest.xyz !
The platform weprotest.xyz give the possibility to protest anonymously online on a shared map.
If you can physically go to the protest, go ! But if you cannot go (illness, remote location, lockdown, security reasons, …), you support the manifestation by placing your avatar at the location of the manifestation on a map shared with all the other protesters. Your avatar is visible publicly on the map, as well as all the other avatars.
On weprotest.xyz, you are completely anonymous. The connexion as well as the server do not know anything about your identity. Moreover, no information is transmitted in clear : all your interactions with the platform are encrypted in https, especially the position of your avatar and your slogan. The platform is designed along a Privacy By Design principle. The only information potentially visible by an outside observer is your IP address. If you want to hide it, use a VPN.
weprotest.xyz is a civic initiative. weprotest.xyz wants to provide everyone with new tools for action toward a democratic life. weprotest.xyz wants to support the diversity of territories in struggle and to create performative cartographies. weprotest.xyz is free and without advertising. weprotest.xyz is maintainted by a team of volunteers.
You can personalize your avatar by associating a banner on which you write a slogan. You can move your avatar around at will, or remove it from the map.
Your avatar represents you. Your avatar is unique and can be only at one place at a time.
You can also organize an online-only manifestation, or join one already organized, by inviting a large number of persons, through social network for example, to come and manifest at a certain time and location on weprotest.xyz.
Privacy and anonymity
weprotest.xyz respects your private life. weprotest.xyz is not commercially driven nor emanating from any state nor administration. weprotest.xyz does not share its information with any commercial nor state entity. weprotest.xyz does not contain any advertising. weprotest.xyz does not transmit, store, or provide in any way any of your coordinates nor personal information to anyone. NO private information (phone number, IMEI number, geolocation, name or any other) is transmitted on internet. The communication with the server is encrypted (https). Only the avatars, their randomly calculated ID, their position and the slogans are transmitted on the internet. You are totally anonymous. But you are there for sure.