Maybe I'm naive, but it seems to me that this is a healthy and helpful approach Also we need to bring down political & economic systems that reinforce bigotry, enable fascism, and poison the minds of youth to the point where they'll murder a classmate simply for being herself 🏳️‍⚧️💖

If you need some quick and simple ways to help make an impact, click the link below and fill out a petition or few! And contact your reps! Theres some urgent need for action in Massachusetts in particular, check the link!

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Online resources are vital for queer and trans communities, especially youth. Take action now at QueersAgainstCensorship.com to protect this access and crush online censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks and attempts to strip Section 230.

Ever wonder how our cities and lawmakers could actually address concerns for kids online safety without censoring vital lifelines for queer and trans youth? Our Director @evangreer.bsky.social shares recs with the Boston City Council

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

From passing UKOSA to sweeping ID checks, the UK government is now monitoring VPN use. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Boston really showed up today for queer + trans youth! 👏 Here’s a quick recap from our Director @evangreer.bsky.social :

While this is going on, you should call your Senators and Reps and tell them to oppose KOSA and all other age verification bills, and also tell them to safeguard and reinforce Section 230.

Great to hear Boston City Councilors explicitly condemning dangerous censorship legislation like #KOSA and the SCREEN ACT. The Massachusetts Congressional delegation, especially @warren.senate.gov who cosponsored KOSA, and @markey.senate.gov who voted to advance it, need to start listening.

www.badinternetbills.com#stop-csam In addition to calling your reps, this website has both a lot of information explaining why these bills are bad/ why section 230 must be protected, as well as petitions to sign for each individual issue! Signing petitions helps! Make your calls, sign petitions!

As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/

HAPPENING NOW: Queers Against Censorship coalition members, parents of queer and trans youth, and allied organizations are speaking out at the Boston City Council today against #KOSA & #ageverification legislation, censorship measures that would harm queer youth online. 🙅‍♀️ #Boston #Queer #Trans

REMINDER: Calling on Boston LGTBQIA folks and allies to show up tomorrow for this hearing to shut down censorship and protect vital resources. 👇

Yes, this is silly but also surveillance, even if it’s a trillionaires’ creepy robot, doesn’t and won’t keep anyone safe.

I remember years ago when I was less jaded and on the board of the neighborhood assn. and I had to go to a meeting where APD was trying to push these cameras as crime deterrents. I asked if cameras had ever been used to stop a crime and they said no. To solve a major crime? Also no. So WTF and why?

WA state employee concerned about government overreach filed public records requests with police whose records revealed that * color us surprised* Flock ALPR cams capture images of all vehicles indiscriminately, not just those suspected of criminal activity. www.king5.com/article/news...

I distribute my newsletter on Substack and Patreon. Only on Patreon, I am hit with these “community guidelines” warnings. Note: the platform didn’t take action, but it’s concerning that topics that tech journalists write about like porn, violence, politics, etc are deemed unsafe.

From Mississippi to Maryland, Black Communities Are Taking On Big Tech There are 1,200 data centers in the South, and $200 billion worth are on the horizon. Black community members are fighting a new wave of “extraction.” capitalbnews.org/data-centers...

Ever wonder what it would take as an organization to move away from Google? Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!

now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again. tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies! www.congress.gov/members/find...

#BOSTON: Queer & trans youth, parents & orgs will testify at the Boston City Council hearing on Protecting Life-Saving Online Resources for Marginalized Communities in response to censorship bills like KOSA & attacks on Section 230. RSVP: FFTF.Link/BostonHearing #LGBTQ #KOSA #Section230

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

The Big Beautiful Bill has always been the biggest grift of all time, not to mention a cash cow for surveillance and border tech corporations.

Stories like this demonstrate why retaining our right to develop and use VPNs is so critical @fightforthefuture.org @eff.org

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

surveillance is not safety, example ten trillion billion million zillion

“60 Minutes paid me a lot of money” In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview. (He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS

Good, we need this energy everywhere. We must drive them from every corner of our land.

Just got through to a REAL person by calling Gillibrand, which NEVER happens lol. Super easy and quick. Give your senators a call about these nasty bills, most of which aim to allow Trump to censor his critics online and silence LGBTQIA voices.

it's never about kids it's never about safety it's always about money it's always about control

Keep calling your Senators and House Reps, and tell them to oppose KOSA and all the other kids “safety” bills in this package. We won’t stop until these bills are dead, gone and forgotten!

#Oakland stand up to mass surveillance this Saturday:

Resistance to data centers is strong in the South- check out @mediajustice.bsky.social ‘s new report for a landscape review and key ways Black, brown and working class communities are taking action! bit.ly/nodatacenters

“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”

Fantastic advocacy here re Flock. Wyden and Krishnamoorthi point out that Flock's failure to require customers to use multi-factor authentication has led to systemic security failures, including Flock accounts being listed for sale on Russian cybercrime sites.

Embracing privacy-focused technologies could lead to a society where individuals feel empowered and secure, fostering trust and innovation. A future free from constant surveillance is possible. #futurism

Senator Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi have formally requested that the FTC open an investigation into Flock Safety for unnecessarily exposing billions of instances of civilian's vehicle location data to hackers and foreign adversaires. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Calling all podcast listeners 🎙️ Check out the latest from our Campaigns + Communications director, @liaholland.bsky.social who discusses storytelling, activism & de-Googling processes with Stupid Sexy Privacy Pod🔥 www.stupidsexyprivacy.com/ill-get-you-...

Big tech continues to demonstrate its’ alignment with fascists. BAN FACIAL RECOGNITION

Out here at the Texas State Capitol in Austin getting ready to rally alongside allies including @teslatakedownaus.bsky.social @texasaft.org to say HELL NO to Musk's trillion dollar bonus #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

i am spreading the word that we gotta keep calling our reps and senators to oppose these bad internet bills!

KOSA UPDATE: House lawmakers are considering removing duty of care & KOSA is currently in limbo since the House & Senate versions will differ. BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package... www.theverge.com/policy/81087...

Roughly twice a year a 47 year old straight white guy (take your pick: podcaster, pundit, popsci) author decides that we should repeal Section 230 and end all online anonymity. They are always convinced they are the first genius to come up with this. And they are always wrong 😑

Speak up. Don't use the "Where's the positivity!" Vibe. We're having our rights, freedom, and right to exist at risk of being taken away. We shouldn't pretend none of this is gonna happen, but it's happening. LET'S NOT LET THE EVIL WIN. #StopKOSA #Censorship #StopCensorship #LGBT+ #LGBTRights

SCOOP: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned.

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock www.404media.co/flock-logins...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

NEW: We helped the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to organize risk assessments for mutual aid groups. Now, there's a report with digital security recs for orgs + for projects that want to build mutual aid tools: cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/...