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
3. A US data privacy law "strong enough to effectively end Facebook's current business model."
The best way to stop Facebook’s harms for the whole world is to cut off the fuel supply for its dangerous machine.
Tell lawmakers to investigate Facebook and pass a real data privacy law that ends their harmful business model forever. #StopFacebookhowtostopfacebook.org
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Poorly written provisions in the #InfrastructureBill could regulate #crypto out of existence & make felons of everyday users. Here are a few of the thousands of exciting #blockchain projects that could be impacted by unworkable regulation. (Sharing, not endorsing) #DontKillCrypto
#Bailbloc is an app that redirects a small portion of your computer’s unused processing power towards mining Monero. It then exchanges the Monero for USD, and donates the $$ to a rotating list of bail funds in the @bailfundnetwork every month: bailbloc.thenewinquiry.com/about.html
.@GCASCollege is the world’s first debt-free degree granting college owned by faculty, staff, supportres, and graduates, powered by its own crypto-token, GCASy: gcas.ie/mission-vision…
New Facebook whistleblower shines light on algorithmic harms. The solution is privacy legislation that makes Facebook’s surveillance driven business model illegal. Congress can and should pass a privacy law strong enough to kill Facebook. #facebookdown#facebookwhistleblower
Last night, the whistleblower behind a series of Wall Street Journal articles about Facebook revealed herself in interviews with 60 minutes and a number of major news outlets. wsj.com/articles/the-f…
Frances Haugen, a former member of Facebook’s civic integrity team, correctly points to algorithmic-amplification-that’s-maximized-for-engagement as being at the root of many of Facebook’s harms.
On 9/30 the House will likely vote to pass the #InfrastructureBill, but this isn't the end of the story. #Crypto isn't dead. On the contrary, this is a golden opportunity to form a much bigger, bipartisan coalition in support of a #decentralized internet.
Because of the 40,000+ #DontKillCrypto calls already, both Republicans and Democrats are calling to fix this unworkable legislation. Your rep should join them. You can see if they have + contact them at DontKillCrypto.com/#scoreboard
We're actively updating the scoreboard at DontKillCrypto.com to reflect which representatives support a fix for unworkable legislation. This is the best moment possible to ask your reps to join them. The plan for the next 48 hours is to do a big push.
EVERYONE: Use our scoreboard to see if your rep has made a public commitment. If they haven’t, use our easy tools to contact your rep now. If they reply, let us know at Team@FightForTheFuture.org. Then, make sure your friends and collaborators do the same by the morning of 9/30.
NEW: #Librarians are under attack and we need to make a big stink between now and 10/4. Unless the US Copyright Office hears from enough of us, librarians will be fired and fined up to $30,000 for sharing resources copyright trolls don't like with patrons. fightforthefuture.org/actions/defend…
Our friends at @library_futures have a great writeup on what's going on with the extremely problematic #CASEAct to make this even a thing.
"Increasingly, libraries are under attack from private sector interests that want to replace the library card with a credit card, and this harmful move to limit what resources people are allowed to learn about at their library is the latest dangerous step." - @LiaHolland
THREAD: Imagine if all of these activists & marginalized people could never be financially deplatformed by governments or big banks. That’s the future we’re fighting for w/ #DontKillCrypto — there’s no #Cryptocurrency unless we stand up & demand the things #crypto can get right.
#OnlyFans deplatforming sex workers is only the latest in a long and impressive line of those major corporations have tried to destroy by cutting off their ability to earn or access $$$ cnet.com/news/onlyfans-…
Amnesty International's bank account was frozen by Indian authorities after publishing reports on human rights violations under the Modi government. cbsnews.com/news/india-amn…