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Tornado of bad internet bills could harm online LGBTQ+, abortion resources

fight4future

There’s a slew of misguided internet bills making its way through Congress and state houses right now and they all have something in common: harming marginalized communities on the internet.

EARN IT and CSAM replicates issues that we’ve already seen from SESTA/FOSTA by targeting companies that provide end-to-end encryption services. KOSA claims to protect children, but would actually hand conservative lawmakers in states that are criminalizing abortion and gender affirming care even more power to police people, this time through online censorship. The RESTRICT Act gives any sitting president unprecedented power to limit free speech online. All of these, along with multiple bills fencing off the internet from young people and those who cannot provide ID or age verification, paint a dire picture for the future of the internet. 

You can take action against all of these bills on one site: https://www.badinternetbills.com/

LGBTQ+ communities and abortion seekers are already under attack across the country. Weakening end-to-end encryption and risking already criminalized online LGBTQ+ resources is a mistake of the highest proportion. 

mollyjimbly
mollyjimbly

🚨🚨🚨DANGEROUS INTERNET CENSORSHIP/SURVEILLANCE BILLS WILL NUKE THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT🚨🚨🚨


WE WILL BE SPIED ON DUE TO NO ENCRYPTION


LGBTQ CONTENT WILL BE WIPED FROM THE INTERNET


SEX WORKERS WILL BE CRIMINALIZED


The EARN IT Act of 2023 threatens to undermine online encryption by punishing companies that provide encryption services. And by repeating the same mistakes as a previous bill called SESTA/FOSTA, it would lead to widespread Internet censorship and crackdowns on marginalized communities. When EARN IT was previously introduced in 2020 and 2022, it was shelved in the face of overwhelming public outcry and opposition from human rights groups. Now, lawmakers are introducing EARN IT for a third time, hoping to pass it and break the internet while we’re distracted.

TELL CONGRESS TO STOP THE EARN IT ACT
Contact your lawmakers now to demand them to reject the dangerous EARN IT Act and protect your free speech and security online
Fight for the Future

KOSA claims to make kids safer, but it’s really a dangerous censorship bill that would give the government unprecedented control over the internet. This would put youth in danger by preventing them from accessing potentially life-saving resources. Lawmakers concerned about online safety should reject KOSA and instead work to protect all internet users from abusive tech companies by passing a Federal data privacy law.

Stop KOSA
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
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Lawmakers claim the RESTRICT Act addresses privacy and security concerns around TikTok. But this is about so much more than just TikTok. RESTRICT gives Biden (and all future presidents!) extraordinary new powers to ban Americans from using entire apps simply by claiming they pose a “threat to national security,” outside of any democratic process. Politicians are pushing this bill to show they’re “tough on China”—but instead of protecting us, this law would lead to an internet censored by the president.

TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE RESTRICT ACT
This is about so much more than TikTok.
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Regressive states across the country are taking away teenagers’ online rights. It started in Utah with two laws that create a mandated social media “bedtime” and give parents complete control over their kids’ accounts, messages, and passwords. Utah lawmakers claim their curfew-and-control bills help children, but these bills actually make children less safe by increasing state and parental surveillance and restricting access to community. To make matters worse, legislation like this is spreading. Arkansas has passed a copycat bill. Louisiana and Texas are trying to follow Utah’s lead, and it’s been introduced federally in Congress.

Stop silencing young people. No more social media bans.
Utah: the town in Footloose
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STOP CSAM wouldn’t actually stop CSAM. Instead, it would make CSAM cases harder to prosecute—like SESTA/FOSTA before it—while reducing privacy protections in ways that would harm vulnerable people. Like EARN IT, STOP CSAM undermines end-to-end encryption, a technology that’s vital for LGBTQ+ youth, survivors of interpersonal violence and stalking, abortion seekers and providers, and activists. Weakening E2EE as a means to funnel more information to law enforcement also sets an alarming precedent for government surveillance. All of us, including children, need to be able to communicate in the digital age without our conversations being spied on.

Defend encryption: SAY NO to STOP CSAM
New legislation introduced in Congress would undermine secure encryption and threaten our free speech online.
Fight for the Future

ALSO WE CAN TACKLE ALL OF THEM TOGETHER, LINKS BELOW

Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Fight for the Future


Donate to Stop the Bad Internet Bills
It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual
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mollyjimbly
mollyjimbly

🚨🚨🚨EARN IT ABOUT TO BE PASSED🚨🚨🚨

PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE HELP US

WE WILL BE SPIED ON DUE TO NO ENCRYPTION

LGBTQ+ CONTENT WILL BE WIPED FROM THE INTERNET

SEX WORKERS WILL BE CRIMINALIZED

THIS BILL WILL KILL THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT

what to do?

CALL YOUR STATE REPS

Earn it Act Call Script
Scroll down for Call Script (202) 224-3121 connects you to your congress representatives. You have 2 senators and 1 house member. Call 3 ti
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SIGN PETITIONS

TELL CONGRESS TO STOP THE EARN IT ACT
Contact your lawmakers now to demand them to reject the dangerous EARN IT Act and protect your free speech and security online
Fight for the Future


The “Earn It” Act is Back, Seeking To Scan Us All
We all have the right to have private conversations. They’re vital for free and informed self-government. When we want to have private conve
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DONATE

Donate to Stop Four Dangerous Bills
It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual
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JOIN DISCORD SERVER

Join the Stop Internet Censorship Discord Server!
Check out the Stop Internet Censorship community on Discord - hang out with 1,078 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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I AM BEGGING YOU PLEASE DO SOMETHING!

🚨🚨🚨🚨 URGENT 🚨🚨🚨🚨

mollyjimbly
mollyjimbly

🚨🚨🚨🚨 URGENT 🚨🚨🚨🚨

please im begging you to donate to stop these horrific anti-encryption, LGBTQ+ censorship bills, if they pass, you will need to scan your face everytime you open up your browser, it will stop people from accessing information about abortion, and it will scan ALL calls and messages too. You will not be private anymore...

Donate to Stop Four Dangerous Bills
It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual
Fight for the Future
fullhalalalchemist
fullhalalalchemist

URGENT: Congress about to pass a mass censorship and surveillance bill under the guise of "protecting children"

May 13 2023

The Senate has been in a "do something!" mode regarding children's online safety. They're using this as an excuse to push for widespread internet censorship and surveillance. I already spoke about the EARN IT Act, which has a slimmer chance of passing with widespread opposition and a few senators saying they won't vote for it. The real threat is actually KOSA (s.1409), the Kid's Online Safety Act. It does two primary things:

First, KOSA pressures platforms to install filters that would wipe the net of anything deemed “inappropriate” for minors. This means instructing platforms to censor. We saw how these filters impacted websites firsthand with tumblr in 2018, with not only blocking all adult content but also sfw queer content such as suicide hotlines, art archives, wiping out entire blogs because they had queer fandom related posts, etc. Places that already use content filters have restricted important information about suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support groups. KOSA would spread this kind of censorship to every corner of the internet. And who gets to decide what is and isn't harmful for minors? Oh don't worry, just every single state attorney general and the FTC, which is appointed by the president. You know, the same attorney generals that just banned gender-affirming healthcare under the guise that it "ruins mental health" of minors. This is why the Heritage Foundation was one of the first to sponsor the bill because they can use it to censor trans content, and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is it's co-author.

Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by forcing websites to use age verification and parental monitoring tools. Yup, that's right. Now every single person who wants to access the internet has to upload their govt ID online to third party apps that get hacked all the time. You queer in a red state? You undocumented? You an activist? Have fun getting all your online activity and metadata attached to your govt ID.  

Over 90+ human and LGBT rights groups agree that KOSA is dangerous and updates to the 2023 version won’t and can’t address the big problems with the bill. This bill has MASSIVE bipartisan support, and the authors Blumenthal and Blackburn (yes, that Blumenthal that's pushing the EARN IT Act, and who also sponsored the RESTRICT Act and SOPA/PIPA if you remember) are using the tragedy of mothers who lost their kids to online harassment and young adults who've been traumatized online to lobby for it, and got Dove the company to use a bunch of influencers to push for this under the guise it prevents eating disorders...I wish I was lying. There are already 30 co-sponsors.

HOW TO FIGHT KOSA

  1. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

This is a link to the Senate Commerce Committee phone numbers and a call script to read off of. (202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline

Opposition is getting drowned, and these upcoming weeks will be heavy for lobbying and they're using young people to do it. We NEED to show these senators that young people are actually opposed to this and don't want it.

2. Sign these petitions

  1. Open Letter Against KOSA
  2. Petition 1
  3. Petition 2
  4. Petition 3
  5. Petition 4
  6. Resistbot: Text PHJDYH to 50409

3. Spread the word.

The opposition is getting absolutely drowned online. Dove has nearly 100k signatures to push for KOSA. Influencers on tiktok are pushing for this without ever having read the bill. Fucking Lizzo is sponsoring it. If you have twitter, reddit, tiktok, are in any community, SPREAD THE WORD, PLEASE.

Here is a linktree with all the above petitions for easy shargin: Link to linktree

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titleknown

So, Dove soap and Lizzo are endorsing KOSA, in the name of "social media is bad for teens' self-esteem" (even though that's bullshit) and I am mad.

If you don't know, long story short KOSA is a bill that's ostensibly one of those "Protect the Children" bills, but what it's actually going to do is more or less require you to scan your fucking face every time you want to go on a website; or give away similarly privacy-violating information like your drivers' license or credit card info.

Either that or force them to censor anything that could even remotely be considered not "kid friendly." Not to mention fundies are openly saying they're gonna use this to hurt trans kids. Which is, uh, real fucking bad.

Given that in terms of their actual products they don't have a direct stake in it, it might be possible to get Dove to rescind this (can't find contact info for Lizzo sadly), if you want to contact Dove about this, here's their contact page.

And, as per usual, I urge you to contact your congresscritters, especially given that as of now (Thursday, 4/13/2023) they plan to re-introduce the bill this Monday, and we're going to need a flood of people saying this is awful to kill it.

titleknown

Reblogging to mention, along with the other Stop KOSA stuff, Fight for the Future has started a petition to tell Lizzo to rescind her support for KOSA.

So, if you want something to sign...

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HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

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the first post ever on tumblr

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I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

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WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

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World Heritage Post

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like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.

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reblog to give your friend a bad day

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“And to your right you’ll see the colour of the sky post, and tumblrinas desperately trying to scroll down to it’s end.”

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Originally posted by all-the-panic-no-disco

this is it, this post started it all

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NOW THAT TUMBLR HAS ANNOUNCED TO SHORTEN LONG POSTS, REBLOG TO TORMENT YOUR FOLLOWERS ONE LAST TIME

bogleech
bogleech

Seriously though if your “lust” demon is designed to be sexy and seductive thereby making you want to do a lust on it or something, then logical progression should mean that the gluttony demon is made out of delicious food, wrath should be someone so obnoxious you can’t possibly hold your temper around them and sloth should be a really nice couch

bogleech

I guess this means greed would have to be made of or full of money, maybe like a piggy bank demon and you have to murder it to get the treasure inside.

Envy is just this really really awesome guy or gal, like so charming and cool and tough  and successful at everything it makes you feel like shit, they’re everything everybody wishes they were.

And then pride would have to be the exact opposite, a gross slob who kisses your ass and tricks you into feeling superior

offbrandanon

i can’t find the proper place for the comment discussion on lust based designs on the website, and tumblr commenting is only inconsistently possible in my experience, so i’ll go here, but since i’ve read this in the past, i’ve grown on the standard idea of lust demons: because they don’t just inspire lust, _they lust for lust_.

 it’s not that demons should inherently inspire there vices by the same logic, it’s that they should feel the vice towards itself. so, gluttony should be parasitic beings(and/or abstract eaters), greed would entrap people by granting desires(thus owning those desires), wrath would smite those who fight them in turn, envy would see jealous looks as part and parsel to being better, pride would see there own arrogance as something great, and sloth is sloth.

(sorry if this is late for you to care and annoys)