How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet

Published: Sept. 28, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

In 2003, when Jon Phillips was 24, he met someone who changed everything about how he perceived the world. At the time, Phillips was a graduate student in computer science and visual art at the University of California, San Diego. Rather than work for a big tech company, as most of his friends were doing, he wanted to use his computing skills to \u201cbuild society and community.