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Massachusetts Digital Action Collective

@massdac.bsky.social

Grassroots small action group focused on community building, building #FOSS, technology education, and protecting our rights and liberties as natural persons. https://substack.com/@massdac

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Massachusetts Digital Action Collective@massdac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Step in the right direction for privacy but I hope this is a working draft. Some genuine concerns that could destroy practical lives. Certain things can't be left vague like compliance with ADA and parental override. A site should let minors disclose a guardian voluntarily to override time limits.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Ahead of our meetings with @massgovernor.bsky.social and @massago.bsky.social this week @fightforthefuture.org is sharing a draft of proposed alternative social media legislation. Our model bill cracks down on Big Tech abuses without destroying privacy and throwing LGBTQ+ youth under the bus.

Massachusetts Digital Action Collective@massdac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There are ways to handle content classification and compartmentalization that's constitutional, private, no logs, and decentralized without absurd blockchain or giving your identity to anyone. There are also ways to filter your web experience, voluntarily, or for your kids, at the browser level. 👇🏽

Massachusetts Digital Action Collective@massdac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We don't support age-verification because (a) it doesn't work, and always gets hacked (b) it enables establishing surveillance infrastructure (c) we assert the natural rights of everyone are entitlements, regardless of age, gender, etc. and should be protected by those we trust that took an Oath to.

Massachusetts Digital Action Collective@massdac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Employees at Flock have been watching your kids

148K views · 2.2K reactions | Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool. Flock has pushed back against this characterization on social media, in a blog post, at city council meetings, and in a statement to 404 Media: “The city of Dunwoody is one city in our demo partner program,” a Flock spokesperson told 404 Media. “The cities involved in this program have authorized select Flock employees to demonstrate new products and features as we develop them in partnership with the city. Moreover, select engineers can access accounts with customer permission to debug or fix any issues that may arise. No one is spying on children in parks, as the substack incorrectly asserts.” For nearly three hours earlier this month, resident after resident questioned the Dunwoody City Council about its relationship with Flock, which is extremely close. Flock has repeatedly championed its work in Dunwoody, and Dunwoody has a ”real time crime center“ that features a giant wall of Flock cameras and is ”powered by Flock Safety.“ At the city council meeting, the residents universally explained to their elected officials that they did not want their tax money funding surveillance technology that has been used to collaborate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, to look for a woman who had an abortion, has been abused by police officers to stalk women and surveil protests, has suffered from numerous security and privacy scandals, and was now using their city as, at best, a live surveillance sales demonstration and, at worst, was surveilling the city’s children. Read now at 404media.co | 404 Media

Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology...

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Massachusetts Digital Action Collective@massdac.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please sign the Remonstrance. You can also print the copy, and collect signatures in your area. We will deliver it to the Clerks of House and Senate of Massachusetts to be entered into the formal record. Our goal is 1 Million Signatures (digital and physical). We must act fast. c.org/D2TFhbnML6

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

REMONSTRANCE TO THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL COURT Regarding H​.​5366 Social Media Regulations

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@act-on-mass.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Until last week, nobody knew that Massachusetts lawmakers were considering a social media ban for youth. House reps passed the nation's "most restrictive" ban with less than 48 hrs notice and no public process, dismissing major privacy concerns. #mapoli How did this happen? Read our newsletter:

04/11/2026 Saturday Scoop: House passes alarming social media bill with no public process | Act On Mass

Act on Mass is a non-profit organization that tracks what happens in the Massachusetts State House and the issues that matter to you.

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Eric Schultz@wwahammy.com · 6mo ago

To be clear, I oppose all age gating but I've seen way too many people say that device level verification is "privacy protecting" when all it does is tell every site and app which users are minors ripe for exploitation.

🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞@onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#savespeech #nosocialmediaban The Governor here in Massachusetts has proposed her own version of a social-media ban. She is comically uninformed about how the Internet works: www.wgbh.org/news/politic... Call her & your reps. Tell them to vote NO on this: www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

Healey proposes limiting youth social media use to two hours a day

The governor says she also supports a House bill that would ban kids under 14 from using social media.

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MADinMassachusetts@madinmass.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Massachusetts privacy actions. Call your state legislators. DON'T SUPPORT this ban on social media bill that would require us all to give up our data just to visit Wikipedia. DO SUPPORT sensible data privacy bills! #Indivisible #Mapoli #privacy #dataprivacy open.substack.com/pub/imccan/p...

1. No More Big Brother Surveillance in Massachusetts! 2. Oppose the Unconstitutional Social Media Ban!

Indivisible Mass Coalition - Coordinated Action Network (IMC-CAN) 4/15/2026

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Public pension funds in over half of U.S. states hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock, according to @Sludge. Public workers in several of these states, like Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, are protesting the fact that their pension funds are being funnel to this dangerous company.

These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir

Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powe...

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Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694