About
Who made this.
Most platforms make you dig to find out who is behind them, and the answer is usually a company you have never heard of. Here is who is behind this one.
Founder
Vishveshwar Raj Soni
Started Freepol, and runs it. He wrote the site, holds the domain and the database, and is the person accountable for what happens here.
He built it because on every platform where politics gets discussed, people are not arguing with each other. They are arguing with the worst possible version of each other.
With thanks to Abhijeet Singh, who helped build Freepol and worked on the charter with Vish.
What Freepol is
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;…
A place to put a political or societal view into words, have it read properly, and hear the strongest version of the answer. Every discussion runs on thirteen principles that members vote on, and the rules that matter are enforced by the software rather than left to good intentions.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
- Not for profit
- No advertisers, no investors, and nothing sold to anyone. Nobody takes money out of it. That is a commitment about how it is run, not a registered charitable status.
- No side
- Freepol does not hold a political position. It is open to every view that is willing to be argued for rather than shouted.
- Where it stands
- In beta: built, working, and open. The charter is taking votes, the discussion is live, and what comes next is being built in public.
- Where it is from
- India. Written and run from here, open to anyone anywhere.
Who owns it, and who wrote what
Said plainly, because a platform that asks people to put their political views somewhere owes them a clear answer about whose hands those views are in.
Freepol is owned and operated by Vishveshwar Raj Soni. He registered the domain, he holds the hosting and the database, and decisions about the platform are his.
Abhijeet Singh helped build Freepol, and holds the copyright in the work he authored.
The source is kept in a Git repository, where every change carries the name of whoever made it and the date they made it. That history is a better record of who wrote what than any claim on a page like this one, and it is the record we would rely on if it ever mattered.
Getting in touch
One address, read by Vish. Press, complaints, a bug, a principle you think is wrong, or wanting to help build it: thechosenkwisatzhaderach@gmail.com.
If something here has your name on it and you want it gone, say so and it goes. That is written down properly on the privacy page.