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  1. Proposed bills like #STOPCSAM, #EARNIT and #KOSA threaten our fundamental rights online & our safety by strongly incentivizing online services to use content-filtering tools + undermine #encryption guarantees in order to mitigate harms to young people.

  2. #followfriday for #digitalrights -- and #BadInternetBills campaign!

    This post is US-focused, see the reply for European digital rights advocates.

    @fight - their page at badinternetbills.com/ has links to take action!

    @eff -- their page on You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills also has links to take action!

    @evangreer -- Digital Rights Groups Launch Week of Action Against 'Bad Internet Bills' has quotes from Evan on #KOSA

    @evacide -- EFF's Director of Cybersecurity

    @pluralistic, Cory Doctorow's linkblog.

    @KelsonV , whose Lemmy post put the Bad Internet Bills on a lot of people's radar.

    @bad_internet_bills and @BadInternetBills, for news and actions.

    Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills? has more on why #KOSA, #EARNIT, #STOPCSAM, and the other bad internet bills are so bad -- including the threats to encryption and the harms they'll cause to LGBTQIA2S+ people -- and how #fediverse activism can help make a difference.

    Here's four easy ways to help:

    1. Upvote and boost posts in @bad_internet_bills -- and cross-post them to other communities and magazines where they're on-topic

    2. On Mastodon, boost posts on the #BadInternetBills and #KOSA hashtags

    3. Get the word out on other social networks too

    4. If you live in the US, contact your legislators using Fight for the Future’s badinternetbills.com/

    [Edited to add Cory Doctorow's linkblog, and to highlith that this i the US version]

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  3. CW: Bad Internet Bills week of action (US-focused, activism)

    @eff says it's a "red alert". July 28 is the last day Congress is in session before their summer recess, which means supporters of #BadInternetBills are trying to sneak them through before then. So digital rights, human rights, and LGBTQIA2S+ groups are fighting back with a Week of Action.

    Please help get the word out!

    One easy thing to do: check out the #BadInternetBills hashtag and boost posts you see there.

    Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills? has more on why #KOSA, #EARNIT, #STOPCSAM, and the other bad internet bills are so bad -- including the threats to encryption and the harms they'll cause to LGBTQIA2S+ people -- and ways you can help.

    And if you're a US resident, @fight has a handy page that makes it easy to contact Congress about the bills at badinternetbills.com

    Or, if you prefer, EFF's page also has inks to pages that make it easy to contact Congress.

    See the replies for more information about the individual bills -- and I'll update this thread over the course of the week as new information becomes available.

    #privacy

  4. CW: re: Bad Internet Bills -- a pair of polls

    There are quite a few bad internet bills in the US Congress -- see the parent poll for an overview (infosec.exchange/@thenexusofpr

    We''re considering doing a #fediverse activism campaign to support the efforts of @team, @eff, and the other organizations trying to sop these bad bills

    But is there interest?

    This poll's a attempt to find out.

    And if you're potentially interested, please boost this or the parent poll!

    #EARNIT, #KOSA, #RESTRICT #StopCSAM #BadInternetBills #privacy

  5. CW: Bad Internet Bills -- a pair of polls

    UPDATE: The post at infosec.exchange/@thenexusofpr has information about more ways you can help stop these bad internet bills.

    There are quite a few bad internet bills in the US Congress -- @team has a handy page up at badinternetbills.com

    The first poll: which of these bills had you heard of before this post?

    #EARNIT threatens to undermine online encryption -- and targets sex workers

    #KOSA is framed as protecting kids, but it's actually an internet censorship bill -- and would especially put LGBTQIA2S+ kids at risk.

    The #RESTRICT Act is supposedly just about TikTok but actually gives Biden (and all future presidents!) extraordinary new powers to ban Americans from using entire apps simply by claiming they pose a “threat to national security."

    #StopCSAM, despite its name, wouldn’t actually stop CSAM. Instead, it would make CSAM cases harder to prosecute—like SESTA/FOSTA before it—while reducing privacy protections in ways that would harm vulnerable people. Also, like EARN IT, it would undermine encryption.

    #BadInternetBills #privacy

  6. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eff-

    EFF Take-Action page for the upcoming EARN It act the STOP CSAM act

    TL:DR these bills would force everyone's private messages to be scanned, and reported to the government, blanket surveillance of every single message across all platforms without cause, warrant, suspicion, etc.

    #EFF #HumanRights #LGBTQ #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy #EARNIT #STOPCSAM

  7. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2020/06/23/earn-it-act-vs-section-230-788727? #EARNIT act vote is coming *this week*. Of course they are going to push for it while the people who *are* interested in being out on the street are already in the street for other reasons and the people who aren't, well aren't. #america : get your shit together and do something about this.

    #cryptowar #cryptowar2