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Fight for the Future

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We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. https://links.fightforthefuture.org/

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world of about 2 million people, many of them are mother's that are sole caretakers of children.

Scholars Strategy Network

Mothers in Prison and the Cycle of Incarceration

The US has the (dis)honor of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

It’s no secret that universities have cracked down on student speech, sacrificing campus safety & fundamental rights to quash protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In response to April 2024 encampments, a renewed tactic of suppression emerged: the campus mask ban

American Civil Liberties Union

States Dust Off Obscure Anti-Mask Laws to Target Pro-Palestine Protesters | ACLU

In today’s world of constant surveillance, people protesting should have the right to wear a mask

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Real ID's are now required for entry to federal buildings + domestic flights. This is another stretch of the state surveillance arm that is placing yet more burden on everyday people while also placing more risk on vulnerable communities.

MS NOW

MS NOW breaking news and the latest news for today. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from ou...

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

DOGE data updates, BigTech threats to workers and Section230 repeal killing online journalism are all on the docket for the Tech Speedrun this week!

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

One recent memory of Skype is how Microsoft shut down accounts of Palestinians without explanation, cutting them off from crucial lifelines amidst the genocide. #skype

Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say

More than 20 Palestinians say they have been kicked off Skype, a popular tool for contacting relatives.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Texas bill SB 2880 will ban abortion pills and criminalize hosting abortion information online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Texas’s War on Abortion Is Now a War on Free Speech

UPDATE May 8, 2025: A committee substitute of SB 2880 passed the Texas Senate on April 30, 2025, with the provisions related to interactive compute...

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Star Wars lovers + resisters of empire 👋 Now's a great time to sign up for Get Free Movements' Andor themed newsletter, Project Fulcrum! May the Fourth be with you! ✨

Get Free

Project Fulcrum — Get Free

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

This World Press Freedom Day we're seeing journalists face increasing political threats, physical violence + online harassment while media outlets are being bullied into government compliance. What worse is lawmakers think it's a good idea to kill section 230.

Committee to Protect Journalists

Section 230 reform could have unintended consequences for the press - Committee to Protect Journalists

Twitter’s permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s account is reinvigorating debate about the law that protects social media platforms ...

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

From intense surveillance to retaliation for free speech, tech workers have a lot to say about Big Tech’s labor + human rights violations. 🪡🧵

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Lawmakers who target Section 230 without understanding it are risking everyone’s right to free speech online and the tools we need to fight for a democracy.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Great news for students, Palestinian solidarity + free speech!

Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention

'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Great report from Pen America that touches on ways the Biden, Obama + George W. Bush administration’s laid the groundwork for the free speech suppression and surveillance state tactics Trump is using now.

PEN America

A Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

We depend on Section 230 for the ability to talk about issues we care about on social media. Without it, you can kiss most online free speech goodbye unless it’s from billionaires who can afford it, or speech from people they favor.

Fight for the Future 8 months ago

Support for the Take It Down bill goes to show just how little lawmakers have learned from rampant takedown abuse of systems like the DMCA—it is indeed a slippery slope for free speech because of fake + bad-faith takedown claims. We’ll see how this plays out...

Techdirt

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people...

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