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‼️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
"Together, these bills would allow Trump’s FTC to wipe abortion, sex ed, & LGBTQ resources off the Internet while instating nationwide age verification requirements."
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · yesterday‼️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
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Stop KOSA
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!
stopkosa.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.
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026. Take action now to oppose nationwide age verification in the US This bill would force every adult in the country to hand over identifying information just to use the internet. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
Defend Online Privacy
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026.
defendonlineprivacy.com
‼️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
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
badinternetbills.com
“There’s been a trend over the last couple decades of law enforcement being able to pretty easily, and without much oversight, get and implement whatever surveillance technology they want…”
A network of cameras is quietly watching every car in N.J. Here’s what it knows about you.
In New Jersey, automated license plate readers can be found in almost every corner of the state. What does that mean for privacy?
nj.com
“It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%.” Well who could have possibly seen that happening.
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...
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.
would be fantastic if we finally reached an era where people stop conflating sex work with trafficking.
Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE@naptime.theolive.garden · 2y agoGuys, is it trafficking when sex work?
big media doesn’t talk enough about how socially isolating online sex work is
Mrs PJ Haverstock@mrspjhaverstock.bsky.social · last wk.Sex work/content creation can be lonely. I have literally no one in real life that I can talk about my work with… & obviously I don’t go to an office or have coworkers either. I wish I lived closer to some of my mutuals so we could hang out…
i'm normally unimpressed by tech company's "how do you do fellow kids" marketing stunts but tbh this is a baller move
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
The sex workers always have the best protests at these HIV meetings. #AIDS2025
"Pornhub sent a letter to 300 state officials on Tuesday, lambasting the 'performative, ineffective, and unenforceable age verification laws' that they helped to pass. The platform argues that age-gating should target device developers, rather than websites, to safeguard privacy and user safety."
Pornhub’s online age-check offensive
politico.com
OKAY BLUESKY I NEED YOUR HELP! Hundreds of artists have signed @fightforthefuture.org's pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance like facial recognition. We want to get to 500 before a press conf in 2 weeks. Quote this and tag artists that might sign? Reskeet? do the thing!
Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events
Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.
banfacialrecognition.com
"xAI, which developed the Grok chatbot, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Monday over Minnesota’s new law that bans the use of what’s known as nudification technology xAI argues in the lawsuit that the law is too broad and infringes on free speech" minnesotareformer.com/briefs/elon-...
Elon Musk’s AI company sues Minnesota Attorney General Ellison over nudification ban • Minnesota Reformer
An artificial intelligence development company created by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Monday over Minnesota’s new law that bans the use of what’s ...
minnesotareformer.com
When Gary Ridgway was killing, buying sex was already illegal. Rape was illegal. Kidnapping was illegal. Murder was illegal. If the existence of laws were enough to stop violent men, Ridgway's killing spree should never have happened. www.swopbehindbars.org/post/gary-ri...
Gary Ridgway Chose the Women Society Had Already Decided to Ignore
Whenever a serial killer targets sex workers, the same political argument seems to emerge. Before the victims are even buried, someone claims their deaths prove we need stronger laws against buying se...
swopbehindbars.org
"Decriminalisation markedly improves working conditions and facilitates the development of sex worker-led official OHS guidelines. In contrast, legalisation can perpetuate many of the OHS barriers associated with criminalisation." #sexworkiswork #sexwork #decrim
PIC Amsterdam@picamsterdam.bsky.social · last wk.Sex workers remain overwhelmingly excluded from occupational health and safety (OHS) protections due to continued criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work. Let's do something about it 💪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Sex workers can’t get deposit a check but Loli’s Deepfake Factory gets its own currency
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last wk.oh good the full self-driving of money has finally arrived
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
cbsnews.com
If you think that rescue begins with handcuffs why should anyone trust you when you talk about safety?
After they decided not to continue their Flock contract, emails that 404 Media obtained show how this town in Wisconsin struggled to get their Flock cameras physically removed. www.404media.co/flock-object...
Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras
"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."
404media.co
States are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to keep older adults locked up. Now, they make up 5x the prison population as 3 decades ago. Turning prisons into makeshift nursing homes is one of the U.S.'s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments.
California Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s Prisons
California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.
theappeal.org
Quote of the Week: “In a few short years, the entire Western world might finally end the age of the open internet.” - Kelsey Piper reason.com/2026/07/15/e...
European Commission moves us one step closer to the end of the open internet
President Ursula von der Leyen signaled that a European Union–wide identity verification scheme for social media users may be coming soon.
reason.com
