Am I seriously screaming at the void every time I do this, Americans? Do something! faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h ago

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

Look up your senators at www.senate.gov/senators/sen.... You may contact both for your state. Tell them you oppose S.1748 (KOSA), as well as the KIDS Act and other unconstitutional mass surveillance bills that directly violate your 1st and 4th amendment rights. (2/2)

🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h ago

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

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Great website to use to place your calls to representatives! Makes it very easy. They even include a script if you get tongue-tied. Get those calls in!

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 10h ago

Now is not the time to back down. We need an overwhelm of calls going in to lawmakers this week. Call and call again tomorrow! 📲 www.badinternetbills.com

The SCREEN Act is dead but KOSA remains. Keep calling in and telling your senators that capitulating and harming marginalized communities by attacking free speech is inexcusable. Seriously, there's some really spineless shit going on.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 10h ago

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.

Now is not the time to back down. We need an overwhelm of calls going in to lawmakers this week. Call and call again tomorrow! 📲 www.badinternetbills.com

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.

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...

fightforthefuture.org

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.

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.

punchbowl.news

Here's @fightforthefuture.org press statement from the hearing today 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...

fightforthefuture.org

And we need to break the stranglehold that a few 80 year old white politicians have over this issue. We need to develop thoughtful champions in Congress who actually understand how technology works and how it can be regulated. We have a lot of work to do. Join us. fightforthefuture.org/donate

Donate

Donate We rely on donations from everyday people just like you to fund our strategic activism. Please make a recurring donation to our organization so we can continue to fight for your digital rights....

fightforthefuture.org

And we need thought leadership. Right wing bigot Jonathan Haidt has the best-selling book on the topic of kids online for years running. We need books, podcasts, keynotes etc from actual experts and people who believe young people have basic rights to free expression and privacy

Most people are primed to believe that censorship and surveillance lead to more safety. Anytime we get into a debate between "freedom" and "safety" we are always going to lose. The digital rights movement needs to chart a new path and show how we can stop Big Tech without trashing human rights.

We @fightforthefuture.org and our growing coalition have been beating back these misguided "protect the children" internet censorship and surveillance bills for literally 10+ years. We're good at it! And we can keep doing it. But to really win on this, we have to radically shift the narrative

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

Here's some more good news from today's hearing: it seems like the SCREEN ACT totally failed. This was one of the most dangerous bills being considered: it would have created an Internet-wide ID check regime that would be a censorship and surveillance nightmare for marginalized communities.

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

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... 🧵

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h ago

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

actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...

Tell Congress: Pass the resolution to protect voting rights

The right to vote and the right to fair representation are under direct attack. The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais has cleared the way for politicians to dismantle districts where...

actionnetwork.org

actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...

Block Blanche's Confirmation

The attorney general must protect the rule of law and enforce federal law independently. Todd Blanche’s close personal and professional ties to Donald Trump make him the wrong choice to lead the Depar...

actionnetwork.org

Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey are the first states to enact laws restricting companies from using personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set prices on goods and services. stateline.org/2026/08/04/s...

States begin banning ‘surveillance pricing’ that uses personal data to charge more • Stateline

Three states this year became the first ones to enact laws restricting companies from using personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set individualized prices on goods and services...

stateline.org

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Little good news 📰 Pops has been asking me how to fight back against data centers (short of burning them down) my answer is always, become really fucking annoying, and when they tell you to chill out, get louder 💪

AWS Withdraws Proposed Calvert County Data Center Project

Calvert County Government informs residents that Amazon Data Services Inc. (also referred to as AWS) has formally withdrawn its Calvert Technology Center Conceptual Site Development Plan application a

calvertcountymd.gov

Big Walk has been out for a day and I already heard so many different names for the prizes. Pear, gord, head, dog toy, baby...