Lowe's and Home Depot have them in all of their parking lots now! 😩 @fightforthefuture.org have an active campaign for Lowe's use of Flock surveillance.

These bills and movements have nothing to do with actually protecting the youth and everything to do with disempowering the communications of minorities and helping young adults form more informed identities separated from hegemonic power structures.

📣 San Francisco we want to see you on May 29th! Flock surveillance has a huge shareholder meeting so we're teaming up with @securejustice.bsky.social @indivisiblesf.bsky.social @bayresistance.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org & more to let the company know just how unwelcome they are!

‼️ Red Alert for Online ID Checks in California: Right now legislators are pushing A.B. 1709, a bill that would ban everyone under the age of 16 from social media & mandate an online ID check for everyone else ‼️ www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The dangers of government censorship & surveillance are not hypothetical, and online ID check mandates WILL give these fascists another weapon to track us and silence resistance movements. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The social media bill being proposed to protect children will require all of us to give our picture IDs to Meta, Google, Wikipedia, Bluesky, you name it. As if our data wasn't already at risk. Plus, it will put LGBTQ youth at risk. This isn't a solution. Tell your legislator to say no.

Handing the FBI more tools for warrant-less surveillance will supercharge the criminalization of Black, brown and poor communities and the punishment of abortion seekers. www.404media.co/the-fbi-want...

We showed up with privacy experts & human rights advocates in Boston this week in opposition to proposed MA social media legislation with online ID check systems, that would require ALL users to upload sensitive documents or have faces scanned to prove their age. www.wwlp.com/news/massach...

Meta just announced they’re “developing" an AI tool that can determine a user's age based on visual, physical characteristics but they swear this isn’t facial recognition. 🙄

“Experts have been very clear, there is no safe way for social media companies to verify the age of every user online,” - @evangreer.bsky.social , Director of @fightforthefuture.org www.wwlp.com/news/massach...

Hot dog! Boston City Council takes a stand, protects LGBTQ+ youth, and your right not to have to upload a govt id to access the internet. Governor Healey and state lawmakers have been abysmal on this. Congrats and thx to @fightforthefuture.org and others who worked with the Council. #mapoli #bospoli

Last Fall local queer & trans organizations, together with concerned parents & youth, spoke out at a Boston City Council hearing examining the impacts digital censorship legislation. Today the council passed a resolution rejecting this kind of legislation www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

50 organizations emphasize that age verification would invade youth privacy & make them “less safe” while being required to “upload their government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan” to post online. @massequality.bsky.social @progressivemass.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Jonathan Haidt is a grifter who is much closer to right wing conspiracy theorists than he is to any serious social scientists trying to solve complex problems like social media harms and youth mental health. Good to see students at his alma mater pushing back www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

We’re growing a broad coalition of rights groups including @massequality.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social @progressivemass.bsky.social & more, in Massachusetts and beyond, who are opposing online ID check bills. Read more about it here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

I will not have my state become an embarrassment for online rights legislation. @fightforthefuture.org showed up today at the state house to talk all about it, and their proposed legislation that would actually protect people online rather than require sensitive PII be shared with websites. #mapol

HAPPENING NOW: Rep. @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social joins @fightforthefuture.org & local parents, teachers & activists at the Massachusetts State House as we announce our letter from 50+ human rights orgs opposing unconstitutional, harmful online ID check laws that help Trump suppress speech online.

Great news! As of this week, conversations that take place between Apple’s Messages app and Google Messages on Android will be end-to-end encrypted by default. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

‘The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social-media accounts, vehicle information, flights, law-enforcement records & other personal information’ reason.com/2026/05/06/s...

Texas locals are canceling their Flock camera contracts in their cities. www.texasobserver.org/license-plat...

🔊 BOSTON teachers, activists, parents- We're hosting a PRESS CONFERENCE with @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social @massequality.bsky.social @progressivemass.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social & others at 10AM outside the MA State House opposing dangerous "age verification" laws in the state. Join us!

Right now @fightforthefuture.org is not actively opposing bans on cell phones in schools (we think age verification laws, for example, are a much more serious threat to civil liberties) but it's worth looking at whether these measures even work for their stated goal www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

it's not about protecting kids, its about tracking adults. c'mon now!

There is a better path @govpritzker.illinois.gov, one that doesn’t entrench monopolies, suppress free speech and set up a surveillance state in furtherance of Project 2025. If you’re serious about protecting kids look at @fightforthefuture.org’s proposal: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

Politicians around the world are pushing for laws that would turn the Internet into a mass surveillance machine. . . 🪡🧵 theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

If it was truly about kids being on social media, they'd create laws to tighten parents' responsibility over their children.

"Fight for the Future pre-emptively endorses any lawsuit filed to hold Utah politicians accountable for continuing to ignore, in the year 2026, the basics of how the Internet they’re trying to regulate functions"

"The No. 1 thing for people to understand with this type of legislation is, while the headline is about kids, the actual implementation is about you” says @evangreer.bsky.social , director of digital rights advocacy group, @fightforthefuture.org www.governing.com/policy/state...

Call your state legislators and @massgovernor.bsky.social and urge them to back this bill instead of the draconian and unconstitutional bill that would subject everyone to invasive online ID checks. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

I'm in Canada but this is exactly what my country should do instead. Manitoba & BC are already considering social media bans which is not the answer. But this bill sounds like a much better solution!

I agree. This is proof we can protect kids on social media without requiring people to enter their government ID before accessing content online. #Savespeech

I don't live in Massachusetts, but yes. A thousand times yes.

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov if you want to stand up to big tech and protect ALL Illinoisans *especially kids* here is your opportunity to get it right. You can do this without aiding and abetting the goals of Project 2025 to build a dystopian surveillance state. Be a leader. Be a hero. Let’s go!

This is the way to do it! And with public input by making the working draft of the bill available for everyone to look over. 👇

This does sound like a better bill.

Little video updates from before and after @fightforthefuture.org and @masstpc.org meeting with @massgovernor.bsky.social’s team. We appreciate that they took the time to go through our concerns as well as our proposed alternative legislation that protects kids AND human rights online. More soon!

“I think Utah is really setting the precedent here for other states and other countries,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @sltrib.com. “It’s very hard to do and a very unworkable concept.”

Our Director @evangreer.bsky.social explains what we aim to accomplish with our Massachusetts social media bill. We want your feedback! Read the working draft of our bill here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

STATEMENT on Utah’s terrible VPN law: “Fight for the Future pre-emptively endorses any lawsuit filed to hold Utah politicians accountable for continuing to ignore, in the year 2026, the basics of how the Internet they're trying to regulate functions.” www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

Tomorrow, Utah will become the first state to prohibit the use of VPNs to avoid age-verification barriers. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

The right love to cosplay protecting women, and they used to be anti surveillance, anti government overreach, and anti cop, but when cops are using taxpayer money to buy kit used to stalk women, there’s not a single conservative in sight speaking up.

Another reason to both a) stop mass surveillance and b) start funding public transit

So not shocking, I said out loud: “Of course they have.”

Un-shockingly a common form of police abusing mass surveillance systems is using ALPR camera networks to keep tabs on their current partners, exes, & even strangers. ij.org/police-have-...

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NEW: Ahead of our meetings with @massgovernor.bsky.social and @massago.bsky.social this week @fightforthefuture.org is sharing a draft of proposed alternative social media legislation. Our model bill cracks down on Big Tech abuses without destroying privacy and throwing LGBTQ+ youth under the bus.

Even when politicians have the best of intentions, this type of legislation is problematic. But, I think I agree with Jibran Ludwig, @fightforthefuture.org, that this is more likely 'a Trojan horse for universal online ID checks.' Read more from @enbrown.bsky.social reason.com/2026/05/04/h...

As if The Atlantic and NYT didn’t suck enough ass already. Let’s fuck up a good thing while we’re at it too.