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willr.bsky.social
Super obvious case for the left to embrace privacy (specifically from corporate and police-state surveillance) as a core tenet of its politics
adamconover.net Adam Conover @adamconover.net · Oct 29
I’ve been a fan of @eff.org for a long time, and I’m joining them in the fight to #TakeBackCTRL. Authoritarians are using tech to spy on us and silence our voices. Technology should enhance our lives and support democracy, not make them worse. Join the fight today: takebackctrl.org
Take Back CTRL
Dont let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back
takebackctrl.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
The success of Ring is just an incredibly American story: Individualism expressed through consumer habits resulting in the voluntary creation of a national surveillance network. Add home security cameras to the list with guns, cars
In Ring's case, customers largely saw themselves as on the same side as Amazon in a fight against porch piracy and for convenience, if they thought of their purchase in such terms at all. The privacy-based case against buying a Ring camera wasn't terribly persuasive from the perspective of potential customers, because they were the ones doing the surveillance, from their property, protecting their stuff and homes. Ring cameras invited users to adopt an Amazonian logic of their own, in which total stoop awareness is, clearly, a good and desirable thing. Barely a decade after Ring's doorbell-camera pitch first aired on Shark Tank, though, Amazon and millions of its customers have haphazardly and perhaps not entirely consciously teamed up to build something strange, unprecedented, and very Amazon: a crowd-sourced, nationwide, neighborhood surveillance network to which the government now has a set of keys.
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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eff.org
Proponents claim that age verification mandates will help hold Big Tech companies accountable. But as we’re seeing in Mississippi, these laws cause smaller platforms to close and users to suffer while Big Tech reaps the rewards. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign
www.eff.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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19thnews.org
The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.
Age verification on porn sites is putting queer adult industry workers at risk
The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.
19thnews.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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eff.org
There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told @rollingstone.com - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...
‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.
www.rollingstone.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
mollibroccoli.bsky.social
Back at EFF as an activist this time, not a lawyer. And just in time to watch age verification swallow up all that is good about the internet. Yay!!!!!! 🤧
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
mollibroccoli.bsky.social
we're gathering examples of censorship of abortion-related information on social media. please help us spread the word! and fill out this survey if you've been affected
February 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
mollibroccoli.bsky.social
really proud of this campaign!
eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Feb 19
Access to abortion information is being suppressed online, so we’re collecting stories of digital censorship to hold platforms accountable.

#StopCensoringAbortion
February 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Does the new version of KOSA they're trying to cram at the last minute to the funding bill solve KOSA's first amendment problems? Ha ha no.

Tell your Congressional Rep. you're not falling for this shit and neither should they.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
X's Last-Minute Update to the Kids Online Safety Act Still Fails to Protect Kids—or Adults—Online
Late last week, the Senate released yet another version of the Kids Online Safety Act, written, reportedly, with the assistance of X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a flawed attempt to address the critical fre...
www.eff.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:49 PM