One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA's AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

From Optional App to Mandatory Infrastructure: The White House’s Surveillance Pipeline open.substack.com/pub/conserva...

I just published The 40th anniversary Dragon Quest Announcement video. medium.com/p/the-40th-a...

I just published Regulations are getting stricter. medium.com/p/regulation...

Same. I have a visceral loathing for Steyer. And I say so even thinking many of his policy positions are actually good. BUT: - He has no respect for the First Amendment and actively trying to violate it re: the Internet, and - He's trying to buy the office, and that's not a good thing to allow.

And calling for an internment camp for ANYONE is inexcusable. There's something wrong with you if you think it's an acceptable way of treating anyone. At minimum it says you have no respect for rule of law. Or humanity.

DEFEND OUR FREEDOM TO BE SEEN: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. theneedlenews.com/2026/05/the-...

with OpenAI endorsing KOSA, i'd have to go double check, but i'm pretty sure there are more Big Tech companies that support it than oppose it at this point. surely that means Blumenthal will stop smearing everyone who opposes his dangerous and poorly written bill as "shills for big tech" right?

Good: it creates federal criminal liability for any person who knowingly publishes non-consensual intimate imagery, real or AI-generated deepfakes, of an identifiable individual. The ugly: survalance state and false report problems and constitutional issues may let offenders off the hook.

the good: it creates federal criminal liability for any person who knowingly publishes non-consensual intimate imagery, real or AI-generated deepfakes, of an identifiable individual. The ugly: YET there's false report problems and constitutional issues may let offenders off the hook.

🚩TAKE IT DOWN Act: What was sold as a way to “protect the kids & stop deepfakes", is a survalence problem. neat idea. but bad This floods the hash system used to stop CSEM with adults and false reports making it harder to go after actual illegal conservativeladiesofamerica.com/take-it-down...

x.com/zkurishi/sta... the debanking situation is still an issue!

The revised GUARD Act still relies on intrusive age-verification systems, vague legal definitions, and steep penalties for developers building conversational AI tools. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A version of KOSA has passed the Senate and a different version has passed out of a House Committee, and at this point we don't know when the next vote will be.

@cathygellis.bsky.social If it's within your suffering, I'd like to ask your thoughts on this. reclaimthenet.org/ai-safety-su...

About time that Meta stands up for First Amendment principles. Too often in recent years they've just surrendered to unconstitutional policy. Or, worse, pushed for more of it because it would hurt competitors. If it's finally fighting bad law, this is good.

yeah no we can't just dance around censorship forever, we need to actually like, tell politicians to stop doing the censorship thing. #savespeech

@streamarcadad.bsky.social are you still around? Are you still in VR chat?

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MTG is absolutely a white nationalist you dumbfuck. Zaid Jilani is one of the dumbest assholes in media.

How can a politician be so completely oblivious to what's obvious to every voter her own state ? Who is she appealing to ? Sure isn't Dem voters in MN. GOP voters ? The ones that think ICE was doing a great job in the Twin Cities ? These centrists are more disillusioned than MAGA.

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

even cirituqes of the left understand the value of their opponents and we must love consistency. On Free Speech and "Woke" open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

@schumer.senate.gov Why did you support KOSA? why are some democrats willing to give aid to project 2025 and trump's censorship machine?

Remember that Democrats are by and large not campaigning on anything that would sufficiently check Trump at all. People have been talking about Nuremberg 2.0, impeachment, and Supreme Court expansion but none of these things are supported by most of the party.

I think they are supported by people who VOTE for the party. But Gabe's point is unfortunately sound: the Democratic party itself is not interested in saving our Constitution as a matter of policy worth pursuing.

porn was merely a decoy . the UK allows first cousin marriages but is now banning fiction that it finds objectionable when two unrelated adult actors engage in role play.

“[P]olicies to prevent children from accessing pornography have been grown to the extent that we could need to provide ID in order to access social media, games and apps or use everyday features such as livestreams or feeds." 🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the call for a change in tack over online safety.

@megacrit.com i don't know why you would list someone who although she's been harassed. has harassed in kind. I condoned no harassment. Censorship is bad. and then have an automated system to misinterpret that as "political" and "harassment". YIYI zhang didn't hire a pedo

I'm deeply concerned about Cameron having a legal obligation here - there are follow-on effects from such a rule that would be censoring in a troubling way - but at the same time: ugh. From a normative basis, this seems poor behavior and Julian is right.

dunno the source for this but this is neat

The point of calling credit card companies isn't to make John Visa have moment of introspection and go "aw shucks I was wrong!" it's to grind business to a halt for such an extended period of time that all the higher ups who are real people with names and addresses decide that this isn't worth it

Not good.

Bad headline! Zambia canceled it, not the organizers. (I wasn't planning to go to this one, but I've been to several Rightscons. Including in other countries.)

Pretty sure nonsense like this was why Moses went up a mountain and came back with some rules (graven images, thou shalt not kill, etc) that Ben Gvir needs to go back and study.

STOP CONFIRMING TRUMP'S NOMINEES!!! Even the good ones! (Which this one is not. And most if not all are not.) TRUMP IS AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT WHO SHOULD BE REMOVED, NOT INDULGED

Some of these are the reasons given why the NRA fought so hard against requiring licenses, or law enforcement having access to any kind of centralized database of gun sales. Under no conditions will I ever hand it to the LaPierre-era NRA, but the potential threats here are not new concepts.

that's savgery. nonsense. and not at all an excuse for invasive, unconstitutional disgusting age verification.

The Connecticut state senate has passed an omnibus-ish bill that includes social media regulations like a mandatory warning label (hella unconstitutional) and various privacy-invading demands. See section 39 here: www.cga.ct.gov/2026/lcoamd/... #SaveSpeech

Well, looks like this passed the Connecticut state house and is on its way to the governor's desk. Get ready for Bluesky to have to age-gate Connecticut, in all likelihood. #SaveSpeech

@cathygellis.bsky.social thought you'd like to see this. The new law explicitly addresses VPN use in Section 14, which amends Section 78B-3-1002 of existing Utah statutes in two primary ways Regulation based on physical location Ban on sharing VPN instructions Law goes into effect on May 6th

I like the politicians that visit with Black churches and clergy *after* they've already won their elections, instead of just before.

Husband Says His Wife Was Arrested in the UK Over Chibi Artwork vocesabianime.com/en/wife-was-... it is pretty simple to me. the UK in this case and many others... are crap heads.

reclaimthenet.org/sheldon-whit... #BADINTERNETBILLS

Political violence sucks.. the erosion of rights sucks. We do not have people that understand technology.Or understand the damage they do. Where they do understand the damage they do and their interests are not in protecting us.

Want a new way to keep up with EFF's work? Check out the EFFector Podcast! In each episode, you'll hear EFF's lawyers, activists, and technologists explain the latest in the fight for privacy and free speech online: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It shouldn't be the government's place to parent. And some parents being irresponsible isn't an excuse for government to just take over as parent.