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Nov 7, 2022

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Fight for the Future (@team@fightforthefuture.org)

309 Posts, 7.5K Following, 5.65K Followers · Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its...

Feb 4

Ajit Pai breezed through the Senate confirmation process despite being a former top lawyer for Verizon. Meanwhile, Gigi Sohn's nomination has languished as Dems have left her out to dry while she faces a persistent, well-funded, bigoted smear campaign

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

MoveOn

@MoveOn

Feb 3

Congress must denounce these disgusting attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, who, for over a decade, has served as an outstanding advocate for a free and fair internet. They must move to confirm her nomination ASAP, and get the FCC working again.

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NBC News

@NBCNews

Feb 3

If confirmed, Gigi Sohn would be the FCC’s first openly gay commissioner. She’s been the subject of articles from the Daily Mail and Fox News that even some of her rivals say are out of bounds. nbcnews.to/3l1Q2kV

"It’s beyond time for Congress to invest in creating more resilient digital infrastructure, where power is decentralized and decisions are made by users, not the market or Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk." - ❤️ Fight's

and

write in

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"The stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher," @fightfortheftr's @liaholland & @EseoheOjo write. That's why Congress needs to work to encode our digital rights, pass a digital privacy law and support decentralize tech. #policyweek trib.al/X7aw3gN

Ashley Lake

@AshleyLatke

Jan 31

I am absolutely BEGGING people tracking anti-trans bills to add all of these ones to the list. The enemy is running circles around us with “save the children” propaganda and if you think forcing ID checks on every site that hosts “pornography” isn’t dangerous, please wake up!

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XBIZ

@XBIZ

FSC Warns Against 'Most Aggressive' Nationwide Censorship Campaign @FSCArmy xbiz.com/news/271476/fs

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Fast Company

@FastCompany

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

Yvette Scorse

@yvettescorse

NEW OP-ED: I teamed up with

@FastCompany

, condemning homophobic attacks on the brilliant

@gigibsohn

, and calling for action from

@SenateDems

to confirm her in the FCC.

@netinclusion

#LGBTQ + #digitalequity sweet spot:

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

Memphis’s SkyCop cameras couldn’t prevent Tyre Nichols’s beating death

Our colleague

still can’t tweet. Make sure you’re reading his always insightful reporting, especially his story today about how ineffective surveillance cameras can be in the face of violence

washingtonpost.com

Nichols’s killing has offered a stark reality check of how ineffective the cameras can be in the face of real-world violence.

UCC Media Justice Ministry

@UCCMediaJustice

Since 1969,

@UnitedChurch

has affirmed the civil rights for LGBTQ people. Bigoted attacks have no place in our civic life.

@FCC

needs

@GigiBSohn

for a #fullyfuncationalFCC. #ONA

@UCCcoalition

@justice_ucc

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

"We don’t expect any better of Fox News pundits ... But we are appalled by the complicit silence of the White House and Senate Democrats." Retweet if you want

@SenatorCantwell

@SenSchumer

to condemn the homophobic attacks on Gigi Sohn.

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

Alex Harman

@Antitrusty

Great Report! NTIA recognizes what most members of Congress figured out last year: "Both OAMA and AICOA included language that allows the operating system operators to take steps to safeguard security, as well as privacy and safety"

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NTIA

@NTIAgov

New legislation & additional antitrust enforcement actions are likely necessary to boost competition in the app ecosystem. Enacting the measures identified will help open the app ecosystem to greater competition, innovation and potential benefits for users and developers.

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Joseph Cox

@josephfcox

LexisNexis 'Virtual Crime Center' Makes Millions Selling to the Government

How LexisNexis is making millions selling to the government, including its 'Virtual Crime Center' bought by the Secret Service

vice.com

Procurement records and documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests highlight LexisNexis' often overlooked business of selling data to the government.

NDIA

@netinclusion

fastcompany.com/90843990/senat

The blatant homophobic attacks on Gigi Sohn are a new low in the lobbies' smear campaign. We need a complete

@FCC

now - and we need Gigi in that seat. Op-ed by NDIA's

@SenateDems

#digitalequity

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

NEW:

& I wrote for

about the shameful silence from Democratic leadership on the recent slew of blatantly homophobic attacks targeting FCC nominee Gigi Sohn. Ajit Pai sailed through the confirmation process. This is beyond absurd

Senate Democrats and Biden need to stand up to homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

A number of right-wing news outlets are recycling QAnon tropes conflating LGBTQ identity with deviance and predation.

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Tutanota

@TutanotaTeam

📣 Stand up for privacy: Join us &

to tell US congress that #PrivacyMatters! Our demands: 1. Protect our human right to #privacy 2. Champion privacy technologies such as end-to-end encryption 💪 Let's make the web a better place! 💪

As the 118th Congress begins, the stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher. Tell Congress to protect privacy.

Analysis | A new bill would ban anyone under 16 from using social media

Teenagers: actively use social media to organize around LGBTQ+ rights, gun violence, and the climate crisis with the goal of literally saving all life on this planet as we know it. US lawmakers:

washingtonpost.com

The proposal is part of a growing wave of similar calls.

https://mastodon.online/@liaholland

ABOUT DAMN TIME PORTLAND!!!

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Hector Dominguez

@hdomaguirre

The city of Portland has now a surveillance technologies policy #digitalrights

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Electric Coin Co.

@ElectricCoinCo

Privacy is normal. It’s a fundamental human right, and is necessary to protect our freedoms in the digital age. The 118th US Congress must support this right. And, we need your help to ensure they do. If you care about privacy, take action now:

As the 118th Congress begins, the stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher. Tell Congress to protect privacy.

It has been several days since Fox News, Daily Mail, and other far right news outlets launched their latest smear campaign targeting Gigi, complete with Qanon style conspiracies and homophobic tropes. The White House and Dem leadership have been silent.

New campaign calls on Democratic leadership to condemn homophobic attacks on FCC nominee

Digital rights groups Demand Progress and Fight for the Future, known for hosting the BattleForTheNet.com action site and mobilizing millions of people in support of net neutrality, have launched a...

BREAKING: We've launched a campaign with our friends

calling on

and the

to condemn the dangerous homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn. Add your name here:

Tell Democratic leaders to condemn the homophobic attacks on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

Net neutrality opponents are targeting Gigi Sohn with a homophobic smear campaign. Why haven't Democratic leaders condemned these bigoted attacks? Sign the petition: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

Sorry Dolan, no matter how you try “spin” this, being rich and vindictive and barring people you don’t like from your venues using a dystopian, racist technology is just awful.

James Dolan hires Hope Hicks as consultant on MSG PR amid facial tech...

James Dolan hiring an ex-Trump comms director to clean up the mess of using #facialrecognition at his venues = classic. Hicks might be skilled at putting a positive spin on racist, awful bullsh*t, but good luck with this one

nypost.com

An MSG Entertainment spokesperson did not deny the report, saying, "We work with a variety of consultants."

Lawmakers should think about how they’d feel if their list of prescriptions was given to Facebook or Google. And then they should pass serious privacy legislation to stop this from every happening again.

GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, F.T.C. Says

This is disgusting, especially as people are scared about their personal info being used to target them under anti-abortion and anti-trans laws.

nytimes.com

Nighthawk Wallet

@NighthawkWallet

Please take a minute to tell Congress that Privacy is a fundamental human right and essential to democracy. Everyone deserves protection from surveillance, as well as the freedom to build tech tools that preserve privacy by design!

As the 118th Congress begins, the stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher. Tell Congress to protect privacy.

https://mastodon.online/@liaholland

Too bad they didn’t include any info on harms to marginalized communities and the threat surveillance poses to abortion and gender-affirming care patients in our city… Read more here:

Ahead of vote, 20+ Nonprofits and Hundreds of Portlanders Call for Surveillance Reform

Coalition of Nonprofits Joins Fight Against City-Wide Surveillance. Portland, OR — Ahead of Wednesday’s important vote, more than two hundred Portlanders and a coalition of nonprofit groups are...

https://mastodon.online/@liaholland

Today

@PortlandGov

is voting on a long-overdue resolution that will kickstart transparency and justice when it comes to surveillance tech. I spoke to

@whatstheskimmy

on today's 2 pm hearing.

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Be a part of the fight for a pro-privacy future alongside

3/3

Our demands are simple: • protect our constitutional and human right to privacy • address power imbalances and support decentralization of power • champion privacy technologies such as end-to-end encryption • pass long-overdue data privacy legislation 2/3

📣Stand up for privacy TODAY: Individuals can now join 60 orgs including ❤️Fight,

in demanding Congress protect privacy and the right to code. If you care about privacy, take action now at giveusprivacy.com 1/3

As the 118th Congress begins, the stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher. Tell Congress to protect privacy.

How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions

Here

provides your regular reminder that people are being prosecuted for their pregnancy outcomes with their digital communications as evidence:

techcrunch.com

Court records reveal how police in the U.S. use text messages, emails, search history to prosecute people seeking abortions.

App store monopolies are human rights disasters

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Sumit Sharma

@SumitEcon

Another report, this time from @NTIAgov calling for fair market rules for App Stores Limiting: Pre-installation,default setting, self-preferencing Allowing: Sideloading, Alt App Stores, Browsers, & Web Apps, Alt In-App Purchasing Improving Transparency & Fairness for App Dev

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Airtable | Everyone's app platform

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Jan 31

"...users are so used to leaking their information on a regular basis that even the discussions around privacy solutions makes them wonder if it's legal to have privacy. This needs to change." -

@NighthawkWallet

Lead on privacy in practice. More at web3foractivists.com

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Jan 31

Huge shout out to

@ProtonPrivacy

for helping raise $109,854 to help us fight for privacy and a better digital economy. More on what their Lifetime Account Raffle will help us develop 👇

Proton raffle raises $109,854 to help us fight for privacy and a more equitable digital economy

We’re so lucky to have friends like the good people at Proton, a privacy-focused company that builds tools, like a VPN and an encrypted email service, that many of us on the team use ourselves. In...

Fight For The Future Writes To The New US Congress To Protect Privacy - Forbes India

Lawmakers should defend the privacy of everyday users and vulnerable communities by championing privacy technologies and protecting the right to code.

forbesindia.com

The letter states that the creative power and freedom of software developers in the US is being limited by poorly thought-out laws and regulations

CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

Jan 23

"The stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher,"

Privacy Is a Human Right – and the 118th Congress Must Defend It

@EseoheOjo

write. That's why Congress needs to work to encode our digital rights, pass a digital privacy law and support decentralize tech. #policyweek

coindesk.com

U.S. lawmakers must prevent the further erosion of our privacy rights by defending our right to use privacy-preserving tech and passing laws against unreasonable and constant digital surveillance.

BREAKING Liberty and

win case against MI5 and the Home Office MI5 agents have UNLAWFULLY SPIED ON THE PUBLIC FOR YEARS

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The Leadership Conference

@civilrightsorg

Gigi Sohn is the person our nation needs serving as FCC commissioner. Efforts to derail her nomination are just desperate attempts to distract from her impressive qualifications and further delay the agency's vital work and civil rights agenda. We need a #FullyFunctionalFCC.