Our Mission

STURM is the platform that finds the lies of the mainstream media — and what they cover up for governments. Freedom is not a state. Freedom is a practice — and it begins with no one unchallenged deciding what you may say, read, and know. We arm that practice with evidence.

Who we are

Mainstream media are not a source of truth; they are newsrooms with editorial lines, interests and proximity to the governments they report on. To us they are a subject of investigation: we check their reporting against the primary sources — courts, statutes, gazettes, parliaments, agencies — and document the gaps, exaggerations and covered-up connections. And because credibility is the only currency an anti-censorship project has, we clear up lies in both directions.

What we want

1. Make censorship visible — with evidence, not assertion. Censorship is rarely called censorship anymore. It goes by “content moderation”, “policy violation”, “countering disinformation”, “proportionality”. We document what actually happened: court rulings, legislative bills, leaked internal directives, dated primary sources. Every case in this wiki is a dossier you can verify — sentence by sentence, footnote by footnote.

2. Make sovereignty possible — with instructions, not sermons. “Become independent!” is cheap when nobody explains how. Our guide shows step by step: Signal over WhatsApp, Firefox over Chrome, your own domain over platform accounts, keep cash, use pseudonyms as a right. Every recommendation names its price (time, comfort, money) so you decide which independence is worth it for you.

3. Debunk all lies — including our own. The most discrediting thing about most “freedom” projects is that they only correct the other side’s lies. We make the opposite mandatory: every dossier contains a “Debunking” section correcting oversimplifications — including the ones that would help our own cause. Whoever fights censorship with lies loses the only thing that beats censorship: the truth.

4. Lay open the statistics of unfreedom. Press freedom, democracy, journalists killed — serious measurements exist (RSF, V-Dem, CPJ). We invent no scores of our own and mix in no opinions. We show the numbers, name the sources, and explain what they do not say.

What we are not

• No party mouthpiece. Censorship from left, right, state, private — all of it appears, if documented. Whoever only records the other side’s censorship is campaigning, not doing truth work.
• No haven for conspiracy lore. “Show the emails, the court order, the investigative report” — without evidence, nothing. This strictness is not a weakness; it is the product.
• No founder cult. The initiator goes by “Mastermind” — deliberately nameless and unlinked. This wiki is judged on its arguments, not its founder.

Why now?

Because fundamental rights are under pressure everywhere at once: platform bans in Brazil,¹ deletion mandates in Europe,² double-titled laws in France,³ mass surveillance in the US,⁴ journalists killed at record rates in 2025.⁵ And because nearly every one of these examples is known individually but nowhere collected reliably, multilingually, and verifiably. That is the gap STURM closes.

How to contribute

STURM is a wiki: anyone can correct errors, add cases, translate. The path runs through issues, pull requests and discussions on GitHub — open, versioned, comprehensible to all. The standard for every contribution is in CONTRIBUTING.md. Three merged dossiers qualify you as a maintainer.

Our technology — and why it is part of the mission

A site that writes against datakraken while loading trackers has not understood its own subject. STURM is built the way we recommend.

Static instead of data-hungry

STURM is a static site (Jekyll, built on GitHub Pages). Concretely:

This site cannot surveil you — not because we promise it, but because the architecture does not allow it.

A public repository instead of a black box

All code and content live publicly on GitHub: every change visible in Git history, every source checkable, every correction traceable. There is no back-room editorial — contributions run through pull requests anyone can read.

Footnotes instead of “everybody knows”

Every factual statement carries its source in scholarly format (author, title, date, URL, access date) — as an in-text kramdown footnote and in the source list at the end of each article. It is deliberately as rigorous as a dissertation: whoever disagrees with us should be able to disagree at the sources.

Copyable instead of fenced in

All content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 — anyone may mirror, translate, print, and spread it offline. A site against censorship that hid behind walls would contradict itself. If sturm.wtf ever disappears, the corpus lives on in every fork.

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