Press Kit
Ready-to-use bios, high-resolution photos of the co-founders, downloadable logos, published articles, and direct contact.
Access the Press KitWhy Us?
We are citizens who, each in our own way, have personally experienced the cost of speaking freely in France. This experience has sharpened our ability to recognize the mechanisms of contemporary censorship — rarely overt, often administrative, always presented as legitimate. What we defend, we defend with full knowledge: not as an abstract idea, but as a concrete liberty that we have seen recede, step by step, before our own eyes.
Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim
Co-Founder
@j_bgA child of the internet, he became a leading figure in the defense of freedom of speech in France in 2009. Fired by TF1 for his opposition to the HADOPI law, he had been denounced by the Ministry of Culture, which accused him of “shooting at his own side.” The case became a textbook example of professional intimidation censorship in the digital age.
A tech entrepreneur and author of numerous articles, he champions net neutrality and the free circulation of knowledge and content, while advocating for the emergence of new economic models for creators.
Nicolas Conquer
Co-Founder
@ConquerNicolasFranco-American, former L'Oréal executive and reserve officer, he serves as the spokesperson for Republicans Overseas in France. In 2024, he was classified as a “political personality” by ARCOM and challenged this designation before the French Supreme Court. The case raises a decisive question: who today decides which voices are legitimate in democratic debate?
Author of Towards a French Trump? (Vers un Trump français ?, Fayard, 2026), he defends the principle of non-negotiable freedom of speech in the face of regulatory frameworks that restrict its scope under the guise of security, decency, or pluralism.
Our Missions
Document the DSA
Document the real-world impact of the European regulation: decisions, injunctions, and guidelines adopted without a vote. Monitor the European Commission in the exercise of its regulatory power.
Monitor Media Regulation
Analyse ARCOM decisions, classifications of political personalities, and the gradual shift from pluralism oversight to editorial control. Make public the data that the Authority treats as confidential.
Alert on Opinion Offences
Track legislative proposals that expand the criminal scope of speech, analyse their parliamentary trajectory, and document their consequences. From the 1881 Law to SREN and successive attempts: recall the protective framework and its circumventions.
Expose Trusted Flaggers
Monitor the designation of European Trusted Flaggers and their power to trigger content removals. Provide transparency on mandated associations, their criteria, statistics, and public funding.
Analyse Opaque Moderation
Decipher automated moderation systems, shadow bans, reduced visibility, and silent demonetisation. When an algorithm decides, who adjudicates — and according to what rules?
Defend Speech in the Workplace
Document cases of professional sanctions for public expression, analyse restrictive internal company policies, and reaffirm employees' rights. The workplace must not become the place where freedom of speech is extinguished.
The Symbol of the Flame
Our name and logo draw directly from the flame held by the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States in 1886. This symbol, deeply rooted in the imagination of our two sister republics, encapsulates three guiding ideas.
- The light that illuminates — verified information, factual documentation, and transparency on decisions that restrict public speech.
- Reason, heir to the Enlightenment — contradictory debate, free thought, and rejection of administrative dogma and moderation imposed without democratic oversight.
- Liberty guiding the peoples — the conviction that citizens, through their speech and their choices, remain the true guardians of democracy against concentrated powers.
Independence
No public funding. No platform contributions. We claim total independence from the very actors whose practices we analyse.
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