Bad Internet Bills Updates + Other

”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico

If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.

If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.

Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.

Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.

Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.

CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.

CALL THE ACLU.

TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.

IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.

WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.

SO HELP US! PLEASE!

HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.

“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.

TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.

I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”

Get loud.

THE KIDS BILL HAS KOSA AND SEVERAL OTHER AGE VERIFICATION AND CENSORSHIP BILLS IN IT. THE SAFETY IF THE INTERNET IS VERY MUCH AT STALE IF THIS BILL CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGHOUT THE GOVERNMENT.

Below is an open letter, please sign this.

https://forms.gle/a1z6vF5gUMucH3hH7

So Trump is about to have direct control over the internet... FAN FUCKING TASTIC!

For more info on this:

So Trump is about to have direct control over the internet... FAN FUCKING TASTIC!

For more info on this:

Senator Castor, one of the original main Democratic senators pushing KOSA (Kids ONline safty act, is supportive of the House version in the KIDS Act. (The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Ace)

Explanation (The KIDS Act, a package of proposals the Energy and Commerce panel advanced as a single bill on a party-line vote in March. It was a way neak through a collection of controversial bills like KOSA and the SCREEN Act under a new name. I had a post about it back in March)

. This is extremely dangerous and could symbolize other sentiments in the Senate right now. Blumenthal can talk all he wants on how the KIDS Act is dead on arrival but that is not true. This is an all hands on deck moment. BLOW UP THOSE PHONES. Call 202-224-3121. Spread it.

. BLOW UP THOSE PHONES.

Call 202-224-3121. Spread it.

my poshort script from past post Monsters and Junk — Update on KOSA and other internet censorship....

Seeing how my post about the DNA sex tests proposal is still going strong, I think now is the best time to share this proposal too.

This one is very detrimental to POC and women’s rights.

By allowing for the dismantling of key protections under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), POC and women will lose all protections regarding discrimination against race, sex, marital status, and other characteristics protected under it.

This directly impacts women and marginalized communities, and their ability to access credit, housing, and financial independence. Without the ECOA, it will become even harder than it already is for marginalized communities and women to access and potentially maintain housing.

This might seem minor compared to other things that can happen, but if we let this happen without leaving comments under this proposal, it will leave such a drastic impact on existing women and marginalized communities’ rights.

We have until exactly 11:59 PM tomorrow to leave a comment on this. As of right now, there are only 95 comments in total. We are running out of time, and we NEED to say no to this immediately en masse.

Seeing how my post about the DNA sex tests proposal is still going strong, I think now is the best time to share this proposal too.

This one is very detrimental to POC and women’s rights.

By allowing for the dismantling of key protections under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), POC and women will lose all protections regarding discrimination against race, sex, marital status, and other characteristics protected under it.

This directly impacts women and marginalized communities, and their ability to access credit, housing, and financial independence. Without the ECOA, it will become even harder than it already is for marginalized communities and women to access and potentially maintain housing.

This might seem minor compared to other things that can happen, but if we let this happen without leaving comments under this proposal, it will leave such a drastic impact on existing women and marginalized communities’ rights.

We have until exactly 11:59 PM tomorrow to leave a comment on this. As of right now, there are only 95 comments in total. We are running out of time, and we NEED to say no to this immediately en masse.

Long story short, there are about ~18 age verification/"child safety" laws being put into one big package in the House.

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that oversees these age verification bills are voting THIS THURSDAY aka tomorrow to pass these bills onto the full committee, and then the full House. We need to drive as much opposition as we can on these bills, specifically KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and honestly any age verification bill which many of these are.

This is how to do it and how you can fight back on age verification

1) Call the house representatives in the committee. Use a call script if you don't know what to say

You can do it two ways. You can either go to the subcommittee site and call each one here: https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce (scroll down, click their names, phone number is under their picture)

or you can use this call script to connect to members here: www.badinternetbills.com

you can use this call script too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0

2) Spread the word! We need as much mass opposition as we can right now. So many stakeholders, policymakers, and politicians etc are looking at public opinion on these bills. We were able to stop them before because of the mass opposition, we need that again. Let everyone you know know. Spread the word!