#savespeech www.parliament.uk/business/com... www.parliament.uk/business/lor...

#savespeech #notodigitalID Friday FYI - URGENT UPDATE: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD OR CALL YOUR IL STATE REPS. DONT LET THIS PASS THE SENATE www.congress.gov/state-legisl... We need support from: @fsc.bsky.social @netchoice.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org @aclu.org

Twitch says no more “implied toplessness“ either. “The policy prohibits full or partial nudity or to imply nudity including covering breasts with objects or censor bars...For those who present as women, we ask that you cover your nipples and do not expose underbust.” mashable.com/article/twit...

#savespeech #stoppaypros

#savespeech #stoppaypros Paypros are resuming attacks on creators. Paypal is no stranger to this, but we need to get on theor asses and the asses of the FTC & politicians. x.com/10shiiw/stat... x.com/10shiiw/stat...

#savespeech #notoDigitalID Bipartisan NC lawmakers advancing bill to ban social media for minors under 14 www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... legiscan.com/NC/bill/H301... Its moving fast in the senate. Passed the house. CALL YOUR REPS. TELL THEM TO VOTE NO www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

#savespeech #notobookbans ALL AMERICANS. ANOTHER ANTI-LGBTQ BOOK BAN HAS SNUCK ONTO THE HOUSE CALENDER FOR TOMORROW. Don't wait. Call your house reps. Tell them to vote NO on this horrible bill. www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

If you have any resources to spare on combatting this bill, now is the time: @aclu.org @netchoice.bsky.social @fsc.bsky.social @fightforthefuture.org

#savespeech #notodigitalID The governor of SC just signed its age verification ammendment into law. It adds the "stop Harm From Addictive Social Media Act" which demands more age verification for sites in the state. legiscan.com/SC/bill/H459... Yell at your reps www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

TODAY at 6PM ET: "I'll Be Watching You": A webinar on everything that's wrong with Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, with tech and online privacy experts! Register at luma.com/qgvc95xz Take action at iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/ and share. Thanks!

#savespeech Although I had my issues with this trend on twitch, its once again a case of censorship of nudity & adult streaming. safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Su... help.twitch.tv/s/contactsup... Consider throwing feedback at them through here.

#savespeech #nopornban Additionally, two groups in the UN are calling on western govs. to convict Aylo and other porn companies of sexual exploitation & force age & consent verification onto them. That said, opposition to this feels higher than normal. Keep calling. www.xbiz.com/news/298361/...

#BillC22 is going to change your rights to #privacy. Friends from OpenCivics put together a quick walkthrough and explained why we need Canadians to stop it together now! 👉 dontsurveil.me/c22.html #cdnpoli @openmedia.org

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

Anti-porn people trying to use the UN to amplify their messaging. Blech. According to the article they do not represent the rest of the UN's opinions, nor is this anything new from them. (Not to mention PH already has the features they call for them to implement.) Regardless, keep calling.

The California Senate has passed the No Robo Bosses Act, which prohibits employers from using AI for automated decision systems in firing or disciplining their workers.

Excited to announce that the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance at @dalhousie.bsky.social will be hosting a panel discussion on age verification June 10. It's free and open to all - hope you can join us: www.eventbrite.ca/e/think-of-t...

Are Europe’s #workersrights about to be thrown out the back door? We don’t want American corporate greed in #Europe - and that’s exactly what #EUinc. could be allowing. Decent pay, good conditions & social rights are the bare minimum. We won’t accept any “28th regime” that undermines #workers.

Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms and the policy gaps.

I'm tired of jobs not paying worth a damn while simultaneously working people into the ground where they dont get to have a life

Please support if you can chuffed.org/project/1575...

🚨 Today 35 MEPs are writing to the Commission to scrap unlawful secrecy on data centres' environmental information. A month ago, @investigate-europe.eu revealed that the EU Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial data under wraps. 💥 That secrecy is now being challenged

#savespeech time to get on google's case. Hard.

#canada #cdnpoli #tech #privacy #politics #c-22 a reminder post, to email and call and sign petitions! oncanadaproject.ca/findyourrep

📣 Make America More Polluted Again? The US EPA will repeal limits and delay regulations on PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, putting public health at risk. "This is a handout to PFAS polluters disguised as public protection." www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/5/...

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

🚨 Canada’s Bill C-22 is here &  it’s the same surveillance bill from last year's failed C-2. 🚨 Help us fight for Canadian's privacy & say no to this surveillance bill.   Send a letter to reject Bill C-22 here 👉 www.internetsociety.org/our-work/int...

the fuck it will

Dear friends, what a month this has been From the EU's new hobby of ripping up permitting rules and funding dirty infrastructure, to us catching Microsoft literally ghostwriting EU law, we saw it all If you want to know more, subscribe to our newsletter & share it👉 corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

Apple and Google are rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android. Billions get instant security gains — and the "interoperability undermines security" argument both companies pushed for years just got much harder to defend, writes Mallory Knodel.

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

It's so weird when features are worded as threats. It's not "now you can talk to Gmail!" No, it's "Gmail is going to start talking to you." I don't know if it's reflective of the technology or of The Verge specifically, but it's definitely something matriculating down from AI techbro attitudes.

Public Safety urging Canadians to use a VPN to protect their privacy while simultaneously misleading Canadians about Bill C-22, a bill that would drive those same services out of Canada, is peak lawful access.

Trying to explain an Internet freedom issue to family or friends? Check out EFF's page with a bunch of one-pager handouts to help you learn about different subjects and share with the people around you! www.eff.org/pages/eff-o...

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

States across the US are advancing laws to restrict youth access to social media through bans, parental consent rules, and age verification. CJ Larkin and Max Morgan map where these efforts are happening, which bills have passed or stalled, and the laws that have been challenged in court.

It's not age verification, it's only identity verification. The lede here and the article are misleading that there is an age verification option when there is not, it's full identity verification as the only option.

The #28thRegime under scrutiny ⚖️ 🔍 ⚠️ The European Commission's recent #EUInc proposal for a new European company law framework could allow companies to circumvent a country's #labour rules by registering in a country with lighter ones 🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/the-key...

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

Canadians overwhelmingly support encryption and reject expanded government access to private messages. New research by CDT finds deep public concern with key surveillance powers proposed in Bill C-22, including risks to privacy, free expression, and online security.

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

The thing is, I don't want to treat people like machines and machines like people.

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

I maintain that the abundance movement is a political project designed by the extraction class to pre-empt authentic populist progressive reform with something akin to 00s era Obama vibes based deregulatory corporatism and I don't love that honest reformers have been forced to adopt the parlance

So like, for the sake of general cybersecurity and safety navigating the web, I recommend giving Google and other captcha services a LOT of shit when they do this. Make them roll it back. #stopgoogle #techmonopoly #savespeech #linux

The company is doing this because they think they can get away with it. Let's show them otherwise––and signing our petition is the first step. Tell Meta: Make DMs Safe NOW! fftf.link/metabetrayedus

In classic Big Tech fashion, Meta is blaming users for the decision, claiming "not enough people are interested", but Meta knows full well that people shouldn't be expected to opt in to life-saving privacy features. Meta's decision is unacceptable– we're demanding they immediately course correct.

In recent weeks, Meta has not only brazenly abandoned plans to protect messages with default end-to-end encryption, but has also removed the option to voluntarily turn on E2EE for messages—a feature available to Instagram users in certain regions. www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...

Great Bitcoin guide for nonprofits who could be targeted for financial censorship under rising authoritarianism hrf.org/latest/bitco...