You, reading this, can tell your reps how you feel now at noearnitact.org
We are hearing that #EARNITAct sponsors may try to force the bill through the Senate this week. They are trying to be sneaky because this bill never was about exploited kids. It's about censorship and ending essential online freedoms. #Section230
"Passing EARN IT without even fully understanding the failures of SESTA/FOSTA is negligent at best and knowingly exacerbating violence at worst,” said @KateDAdamo a sex worker advocate with @hackinghustling.
@SenSchumer + @SpeakerPelosi are poised to put special interests before people by ramming through the so-called Journalism Competition and Protection Act.
Instead of holding big tech accountable by bringing #AICOA and #OAMA to a vote as @SenSchumer promised, we are hearing that he’s looking to put a handout to Murdoch, Alden Capital, and Gannett in the National Defense Authorization Act. Why you should be outraged, a thread.
The #JCPA is a pro-monopoly bill, allowing news publishers to form a cartel and demand payment for any links to their content. It’s must-carry, and must-pay, no matter how extreme the content. That's why 20+ civil society and library groups opposed.
NEW: ❤️Fight and @MediaJustice are calling on MGM to cancel their new show, Ring Nation. This trainwreck will use video from Ring cameras to sell surveillance to viewers.
There are so many reasons civil rights groups agree that Ring is dangerous. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-…
Ring Nation tries to put a friendly face on a dangerous product.
Ring is the figurehead of Amazon’s surveillance empire. Its cameras capture the whereabouts and actions of millions and share warrantless surveillance data with the police. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Ring’s DIY surveillance toolkit gives racists a platform to criminalize people of color, and anti-choicers a network to surveil and report abortion seekers.
Will Ring Nation air soundbites of racial profiling? Of hateful anti-abortion confrontations? vice.com/en/article/qvy…
1/6: Creepy surveillance tools are spreading like wildfire across school campuses.
Since moving to remote learning, students like Aaron Ogletree have been forced to show school admin and other students their bedrooms every time they take a test. Aaron sued—and yesterday, he won.
2/6: In a landmark victory, a federal judge in Ohio ruled that remote “room scans” are a warrantless search under the 4th Amendment. These scans use a student’s webcam to probe their room (usually their bedroom 🙃) & are a gross privacy violation.
3/6 This is big. Students like Aaron now have the tools to fight eproctoring tools like Honorlock, Proctorio, and Respondus that invade their private lives, force them to adopt weird behavior to pass an AI check, and discriminate based on race and ability. theverge.com/2022/8/23/2331…
Today is #AntitrustDay, and nonprofits, tech companies, and internet users are uniting in calling on Congress to end Big Tech’s abusive monopolies. We can’t restructure our relationship with tech until we have antitrust laws. Contact lawmakers now. antitrustday.org
The bad provisions in the #InfrastructureBill might be the law, but the fix bill these Senators have introduced is a clear signal:
🔥The fight for a common sense approach to new tech that doesn't entrench Zuck as Ruler of web3 is not over.
We drove 40,000+ calls to the Senate on this issue and we are being heard. The Chair of the Senate Finance Committee is taking a stand, will your Rep join him? Find out: dontkillcrypto.com
NEW: Today nearly 50 leading human rights organizations launched HowToStopFacebook.org the first major grassroots campaign in the wake of Frances Haugen's testimony. We're calling for an investigation & a data privacy law "strong enough to end Facebook's current business model"
.@FrancesHaugen & other Facebook whistleblowers have shined a light on the way that Big Tech's surveillance-driven recommendation algorithms are at the root of these company's societal harms. The data Facebook collects on all of us is the fuel that powers those dangerous machines