Little B Dreams
@littlebdreams.bsky.social
NO MINORS. Occasional Writer, sometimes of the erotic variety. Trying to learn self improvement and community organizing.
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
Keep calling about KOSA! It passed committee. That doesn’t mean it passed the Senate. It’s on its way to the floor. #KillKOSA #Callyoursenators #1stAmmendment #Censorship #FreedomofSpeech
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 4h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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 · 4h agoNow 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
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 · 4h agoThe 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 agoThe 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...
SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · yesterdayIf 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.
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.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike 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.
Please contact your senators about the SCREEN ACT, which is moving through the senate commerce committee TOMORROW And while youre at it, demand opposition to KOSA and the KIDS Act as well! www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
Here is a list of the most important people to call about KOSA and the SCREEN act today if you want to prioritize your calls.
What can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!
defendonlineprivacy.com
‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665
S.1748 will endanger vulnerable communities, allow censorship, and establish a de-factor age-verification system. It's obvious age verification is really more about online-ID and tying every interaction to a specific user. #KOSA #BadInternetBills #KIDSAct #Censorship #AgeVerification #OnlineID
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Call your senators even if you think you have one that will not listen. Sacrificing everyone’s privacy is an incredibly high cost. Australia had a similar law that is already showing that it doesn’t protect kids. The idea that this protects kids is a Trojan horse for surveillance on the internet
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.
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Shut Down Delaney Hall
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The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
reminder to @edmarkey.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov that you should ABSOLUTELY not be voting for this. (I shall also get in touch tomorrow)
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov This bill will do nothing to protect kids, and in fact will only harm people (especially kids) Privacy, not more surveillance #KOSASucks
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
If you want an idea how bad KOSA or the Screen act passing could be watch @agramuglia.bsky.social video on internet censorship and America because wow we are heading close to this future just being full on reality in a week here www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwo...
America Will Censor Everything on the Internet
YouTube video by Anthony Gramuglia
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KOSA's not the only bill they're marking up. The SCREEN Act is also on the agenda. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's action on that www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
Stop the SCREEN Act
fightforthefuture.org
🚨 Senate Commerce Committee has just announced a markup on KOSA and other kids safety bills next week 🚨 So if you're in the US, now's a very good time to call your Senators! @fightforthefuture.org's Bad Internet Bills page makes it easy ... www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
badinternetbills.com
Blake C. Stacey@blakestacey.myatproto.social · last wk.Punchbowl reporting that the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a mark-up for #KOSA next week, citing "a person familiar". Nothing on the Committee website itself yet. punchbowl.news/article/tech... #SaveSpeech
Thank you again to everyone who donates even a tiny amount!!! Please keep this going!!!
🇵🇸Vee (Black Lives Matter/Trans Rights Are Human Rights!)@veetheposs.bsky.social · 2w agoI am at my limit, y’all. I’ve been asking for help for almost two years and I’m still not even halfway there. Please help me get to a better place so I can transition and live in peace. I’m begging. #mutualaid #helpsky #transcrowdfund ko-fi.com/adeleinevee
“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.This aught to be illegal ... "AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books" www.news.com.au/technology/o...
NEW: @evangreer.bsky.social director of @fightforthefuture.org spoke with @wired.com about the latest on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance practices & exceptionalism when it comes to elites like Taylor Swift.
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoThis exception could be a preview of “a future where privacy is a luxury for the elite few and the rest of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance everywhere we go,” says Evan Greer, director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...
Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy. They decided to do it anyway.
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 2w agoFrance just became the first nation in Europe to ban teens from social media and, you guessed it, they’re forcing everyone to upload their ID’s for social media access in order to enforce it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
While world leaders are hell bent on ‘saving the kids’ by enabling mass censorship & surveillance measures like ID checks or kicking teens off of social media, we seldom hear what kids have to say about it, even though many of them are doing incredible things for accountability movements.
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoAn Instagram post about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to wealthy communities in Marin County, CA, turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
