Since 2021, EFF has been advocating against the use of armed robots or drones by law enforcement. This call has only become more urgent. Lawmakers need to act now. Learn more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

He just got sued for not turning over the Epstein files! #Pinks #USDemocracy

Orange Nickelodeon VHS tapes

Legislation like New York’s S9934A sweeps far beyond AI, targeting anonymity rather than the real technical issue: overaggressive crawling that can overtax technological infrastructure. Governor Hochul should veto it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to

EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter

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Jeanine might be in trouble #JeaninePirro #Trump

Are We The “ Shithole Country “ Now???

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

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Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

WHAT GOVERNMENT ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET COULD STILL BELIEVE IN OR TRUST AN AMERICA THAT ELECTED A CHILD RAPIST TO THE OFFICE OF "President," SURROUNDED BY HIS GANG OF DEGENERATES❓️🤣

Hey, Congress? Think before you confirm.

Protect Americans or defend the guy killing them. That’s the midterm choice #BlueWaveIn90Days

Sometimes hacking the system means creating tools and resources to protect your rights today. That includes EFF's Privacy Badger, Certbot, and Surveillance Self-Defense guide—all thanks to EFF member support. You can join this community today! eff.org/vv

If you are heading to DEF CON this weekend don't forget to update your Rayhunter device to 0.12.0! Signal strength is now included in captures. Recordings are compressed. Some identity request events have had their severity lowered to reduce the number of false positives. github.com/EFForg/rayh...

Release Rayhunter v0.12.0 · EFForg/rayhunter

What's Changed remove another instance of outdated docs by @bmw in #1060 fix(installer): improve error message when port 4000 is already in use by @DevenDucommun in #1062 fix(daemon): drain UI...

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Despite all the rhetoric about "reining in Big Tech" we heard today, it's essential to understand the push for this "kids safety" legislation as something that most Big Tech companies WANT. Microsoft, OpenAI, Snap, X, Apple, and now Meta all support KOSA because it benefits their monopoly status

But here's the thing: the Senate version of KOSA they just advanced is wildly different from the House version of KOSA they advanced as part of the KIDS Act. The committee knows they can't be reconciled This is theater not substance. They want to say they "protected the kids" without doing anything

In the end, it's really good that the SCREEN ACT didn't advance. In a lot of ways that was a more real threat than KOSA, which has been mired in controversy for years and is almost certainly going to die in conference between the House and Senate. But also: we're playing whack-o-mole

It's still a little unclear exactly what happened but it seems like several members of the committee stayed out of the room on purpose in order to sink the vote on SCREEN ACT (without having to go on the record voting against the save the children bill) master classes in bravery we're seeing here

First, the bad news: as predicted the committee unanimously advanced the Kids Online Safety Act or KOSA. It's particularly embarrassing that progressive Democrats allowed this to advance on a voice vote despite opposition from human rights, LGBTQ+, racial justice, and civil liberties organizations.

THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor

The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.

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Despite the usual and continued insistence that KOSA protects kids, the duty of care enforced by a Trump FTC would be a censorship & surveillance nightmare.

This is especially true for LGBTQ+ youth who need online communities now more than ever to connect, organize & find resources that are being restricted by the Trump administration & rightwing state governments. Read our full statement here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...

Senate Commerce passes censorship bill KOSA out of committee, SCREEN Act fails

Fight for the Future is a digital rights organization that has been leading coalitions of human rights, LGBTQ, reproductive rights, and digital rights organizations opposed to the Kids Online Safety A...

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To be clear, the Senate version of KOSA passed today is completely different than the House version that passed earlier this year, making it very unlikely to become law. The Senate knows this yet they are committing to the farce of acting on kids safety.

Trump promised he wouldn’t touch Medicare. Then he signed his Big Beautiful Bill that triggered billions in healthcare cuts, massively gutting Medicare. It was never beautiful. And now it's a Big Deadly Bill for anyone on Medicare. This November remember #RepublicanMedicareCuts

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 9h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

While this latest Spider-Man movie was truly excellent, it’s not necessarily a sign that Marvel has figured out how to get things back on track. Read more from @charlespulliam.bsky.social:

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

Despite Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s success, the MCU is on shaky ground.

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KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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Story of many many Americans lives.. the medical stuff shouldn’t be political But somehow that has become Toxic too????