Lia Holland
@liaholland.bsky.social
🌲🌲🏔🍄🌲🏳️🌈🧙♀️🏃🏼♀️🍪 new tech + privacy + creative rights @fightforthefuture.org | 🖋️rep @jwongbaxter.bsky.social | eat & make obsolete at the same time | they/she | opinions=mine
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Lia Holland
@liaholland.bsky.social
· Jul 2
For the past year, I've been working with dozens of my most admired humans on the planet to put some new thoughts to think with out in the world.
Storytellers, may I present the uncensorable, decentralized Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit: stopcopaganda.compost.digital
Storytellers, may I present the uncensorable, decentralized Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit: stopcopaganda.compost.digital
Wanna experience one of the most bizarre and outrageous sagas from my time at @fightforthefuture.org (...so far)?
Read today's piece on @linkletter.org's absolutely legendary legal heroism against garbage surveillance company Proctorio.
Thank you for this story, @ashleybelanger.bsky.social
Read today's piece on @linkletter.org's absolutely legendary legal heroism against garbage surveillance company Proctorio.
Thank you for this story, @ashleybelanger.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Wanna experience one of the most bizarre and outrageous sagas from my time at @fightforthefuture.org (...so far)?
Read today's piece on @linkletter.org's absolutely legendary legal heroism against garbage surveillance company Proctorio.
Thank you for this story, @ashleybelanger.bsky.social
Read today's piece on @linkletter.org's absolutely legendary legal heroism against garbage surveillance company Proctorio.
Thank you for this story, @ashleybelanger.bsky.social
Reading the stats on how ICE is grabbing people in OR this week mostly by pulling over immigrants in cars, and shaking my fist at everyone who ever believed for a sec that surveillance = safety.
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reading the stats on how ICE is grabbing people in OR this week mostly by pulling over immigrants in cars, and shaking my fist at everyone who ever believed for a sec that surveillance = safety.
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Democrats are preparing to sacrifice our ability to organize online for a hollow political victory, and this impending collapse of digital speech protections will cripple social movements at the very moment they are proving most effective.
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Democrats are preparing to sacrifice our ability to organize online for a hollow political victory, and this impending collapse of digital speech protections will cripple social movements at the very moment they are proving most effective.
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
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Ever wonder what it would take as an organization to move away from Google?
Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!
Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ever wonder what it would take as an organization to move away from Google?
Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!
Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!
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Speculative Friction has a cool series and they just spoke with our colleague, activist + author @liaholland.bsky.social, about challenging tech solutionism, navigating surveillance capitalism in the creative industry + more. Check it out!
speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...
speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...
The Journey Matters: resisting tech solutionism, building community, and rewriting narratives
A conversation with Lia Holland exploring how storytelling opens space for meaning, equity, and imagination
speculativefriction.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Speculative Friction has a cool series and they just spoke with our colleague, activist + author @liaholland.bsky.social, about challenging tech solutionism, navigating surveillance capitalism in the creative industry + more. Check it out!
speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...
speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...
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NEW: Our very own @liaholland.bsky.social digs in with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about the political campaign against VPNs + how to fight back.
Excellent interview @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. VPNs are our last line of defense against internet censorship. It was only a matter of time before the censors come after us.
youtu.be/IoXafCNjl54?...
youtu.be/IoXafCNjl54?...
The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: Our very own @liaholland.bsky.social digs in with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about the political campaign against VPNs + how to fight back.
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TOMORROW we’re hosting a VPN day of action to let global leaders know we won’t stand for a VPN ban. Join us!
Get the toolkit 👉 www.defendvpns.com
@liaholland.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
Get the toolkit 👉 www.defendvpns.com
@liaholland.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
TOMORROW we’re hosting a VPN day of action to let global leaders know we won’t stand for a VPN ban. Join us!
Get the toolkit 👉 www.defendvpns.com
@liaholland.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
Get the toolkit 👉 www.defendvpns.com
@liaholland.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
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Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fightforthefuture.org’s @liaholland.bsky.social tells @techradar.com: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
"We want to make some noise" - Advocates are stepping in to defend VPNs, and they need your help
Fight for the Future is calling everyone worldwide to join the Defend VPNs Day of Action on September 25
www.techradar.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fightforthefuture.org’s @liaholland.bsky.social tells @techradar.com: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Listen if @fightforthefuture.org can spend the morning posting our VPN Day of Action across the entire Reddit porn community you can take 5 min to sign the dang thing and call your reps.
www.defendvpns.com
www.defendvpns.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Listen if @fightforthefuture.org can spend the morning posting our VPN Day of Action across the entire Reddit porn community you can take 5 min to sign the dang thing and call your reps.
www.defendvpns.com
www.defendvpns.com
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ICYMI: @liaholland.bsky.social , Campaigns + Communications Director at @fightforthefuture.org has some 🔥 updates for you this week:
📢VPN day of action announcement
✈️airline Data broker news
🎤Massive attack + the fight against facial recognition
📢VPN day of action announcement
✈️airline Data broker news
🎤Massive attack + the fight against facial recognition
September 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
ICYMI: @liaholland.bsky.social , Campaigns + Communications Director at @fightforthefuture.org has some 🔥 updates for you this week:
📢VPN day of action announcement
✈️airline Data broker news
🎤Massive attack + the fight against facial recognition
📢VPN day of action announcement
✈️airline Data broker news
🎤Massive attack + the fight against facial recognition
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“As the Trump administration attempts to silence left-coded orgs, Dems like @amyklobuchar.com line up to remove the Section 230 protections that everyone relies on to exercise their rights to speak + organize.” - @liaholland.bsky.social
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...
Statement: Ted Cruz is really better than Democrats on the First Amendment?
The following statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at digital rights organization Fight for the Future: As the Trump administration attempts to ...
www.fightforthefuture.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“As the Trump administration attempts to silence left-coded orgs, Dems like @amyklobuchar.com line up to remove the Section 230 protections that everyone relies on to exercise their rights to speak + organize.” - @liaholland.bsky.social
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...
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Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA.
Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/
Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/
September 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA.
Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/
Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/
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I quit the post a few years ago, but now I regret that I ever gave them a dime.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I quit the post a few years ago, but now I regret that I ever gave them a dime.
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The surveillance capitalist business model drives what's coming out of Silicone Valley and it is not going to be the solution for holding abusers accountable or community safety online.
@liaholland.bsky.social
@liaholland.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The surveillance capitalist business model drives what's coming out of Silicone Valley and it is not going to be the solution for holding abusers accountable or community safety online.
@liaholland.bsky.social
@liaholland.bsky.social
Let's have a renaissance of trans everything, please.
Aw thanks @them.us for including AMAB/ACAB in this auspicious list!
"We're living through a renaissance of trans music." INDEED!
www.them.us/story/fall-2...
"We're living through a renaissance of trans music." INDEED!
www.them.us/story/fall-2...
September 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Let's have a renaissance of trans everything, please.
Over here enjoying some soft vibes from Astrud Gilberto and sipping my blueberry protein smoothie while preparing to slap art-washing genocide upside the face with @fightforthefuture.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Over here enjoying some soft vibes from Astrud Gilberto and sipping my blueberry protein smoothie while preparing to slap art-washing genocide upside the face with @fightforthefuture.org
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HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Without Encryption My Work Wouldn’t Be Possible
Our work isn’t always popular. It can infuriate those in power who want to cover up incriminating truths about the past and current trends in state violence. So when I think about HRDAG’s threat model...
hrdag.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Goodbye Spotify, goodbye Goodreads.
(Hello Tidal, hello StoryGraph.)
Finally got my act together to yeet these complicities with genocide + exploiting artists and damn does it feel good.
(Hello Tidal, hello StoryGraph.)
Finally got my act together to yeet these complicities with genocide + exploiting artists and damn does it feel good.
August 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Goodbye Spotify, goodbye Goodreads.
(Hello Tidal, hello StoryGraph.)
Finally got my act together to yeet these complicities with genocide + exploiting artists and damn does it feel good.
(Hello Tidal, hello StoryGraph.)
Finally got my act together to yeet these complicities with genocide + exploiting artists and damn does it feel good.
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This time last year I sat down with some pretty dark thoughts and a full novella gushed out of me in one giant bleed.
Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12.
You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.
Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12.
You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.
August 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This time last year I sat down with some pretty dark thoughts and a full novella gushed out of me in one giant bleed.
Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12.
You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.
Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12.
You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.
So jazzed to be running around Seattle this week for @seattlein2025.org—the code switch between @fightforthefuture.org geekery+ Writers of Rohan geekery is gonna be like a strobe light.
August 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
So jazzed to be running around Seattle this week for @seattlein2025.org—the code switch between @fightforthefuture.org geekery+ Writers of Rohan geekery is gonna be like a strobe light.
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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NEW: Our latest report examines the impact of flawed internet law, FOSTA-SESTA and how it has caused widespread harm for those at the intersection of sex work + other marginalized identities—especially LGBTQ+ individuals. Share widely! #BadInternetBills
www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/u...
www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/u...
August 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NEW: Our latest report examines the impact of flawed internet law, FOSTA-SESTA and how it has caused widespread harm for those at the intersection of sex work + other marginalized identities—especially LGBTQ+ individuals. Share widely! #BadInternetBills
www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/u...
www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/u...
On days like this I feel bad for my colleagues dealing with my scatterbrain because I'm on one and I could write ALL DAY.
The code switch to fighting technofascism can be abrupt as hell.
The code switch to fighting technofascism can be abrupt as hell.
August 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
On days like this I feel bad for my colleagues dealing with my scatterbrain because I'm on one and I could write ALL DAY.
The code switch to fighting technofascism can be abrupt as hell.
The code switch to fighting technofascism can be abrupt as hell.
Literally as we launch DefendVPNs.com the UK government starts threatening content advertising VPN services... www.gov.uk/government/n...
NEW CAMPAIGN: “Age Verification” laws are accelerating the global discussion of banning or restricting VPN usage but this won’t make the internet a safer place!
August 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Literally as we launch DefendVPNs.com the UK government starts threatening content advertising VPN services... www.gov.uk/government/n...
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The real 🫖☕️ on the Tea app is that it was a privacy disaster from jump + a terrible idea... because of the data industrial complex and lack of federal privacy protections in the US.
@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.
@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.
July 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The real 🫖☕️ on the Tea app is that it was a privacy disaster from jump + a terrible idea... because of the data industrial complex and lack of federal privacy protections in the US.
@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.
@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.