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Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core.

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2025-05-14 19:13:23

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What is clear is that, based on his previous threats, Trump will use this law to revoke the tax-exempt status for groups he views as political foes.
#nonprofitkillerbill #resistTrump #nonprofits #freespeech #resistfascism
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe

2025-05-14 19:11:45

‼️Language from the 2024 nonprofit killer bill was approved in House budget-reconciliation this morning 👎
We name some of the risks of this "terribly thought-out" legislation to vulnerable communities:
https://apnews.com/article/congress-nonprofits-tax-exempt-terrorism-trump-f9f5cfad4ea64c0745313a0b8a84fccf

2025-05-08 13:46:36

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. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna204996

2025-05-06 01:14:45

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
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

2025-05-05 16:01:47

Texas bill SB 2880 will ban abortion pills and criminalize hosting abortion information online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech

2025-04-17 17:38:55

Dozens of activists who helped organize protests this year against Elon Musk’s company Tesla are calling on Democratic leaders in Congress to drop efforts to repeal Section 230, arguing the statute protects their activism efforts.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5253431-tesla-takedown-organizers-call-on-democrats-to-shield-section-230/

2025-03-26 20:31:34

While Mahmoud + others kidnappings are disturbing, they’re not flukes! These surveillance apparatuses and censorship systems are operating AS DESIGNED.
Use these resources to minimize risk + stay as safe as possible ✅
https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/protesting-under-fascism/

2025-03-26 16:42:01

Google’s newly acquired company, founded by a former Israeli army cyber-espionage/surveillance unit, does little to quell concerns about their complicity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide…https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-playing-fire-acquiring-israeli-company-founded-unit-8200-veterans

2025-03-04 17:57:00

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Join the Microsoft workers organizing to cut ties with the IDF + demand that Microsoft sever ties with Israel’s genocide: https://tinyurl.com/Mcrsftcomplicity

2025-03-04 17:48:56

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Last week, Microsoft workers w/ the No Azure for Apartheid campaign petitioned Microsoft’s CEO for answers at an “employee town hall.” Despite standing silently with shirts reading “Does our code kill kids?” the workers were kicked out of their own town hall. Microsoft leadership’s inability to answer their question is chilling.

2025-03-04 17:46:49

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These docs show that Microsoft has supplied a range of tech tools, from cloud systems to millions of dollars in engineering support, to the IDF as they carried out genocide.
https://tinyurl.com/455zpan3

2025-03-04 17:43:40

The truth has finally come to the surface: leaked docs from January confirm a clear partnership b/t Microsoft + Israel’s military ops throughout the latters’ assault on Gaza.
https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku

2025-02-26 17:43:47

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Their goal is to confuse, disorient + demobilize us by doing this. We must stay focused and fight back by protecting federal workers. One way to do that is flood Musk’s inbox: https://tinyurl.com/35nmkxav

2025-02-26 17:39:00

Trump + Musk’s ‘flood the zone’ strategy means hijacking government agencies, cutting valuable programs + surveilling federal employees all while accessing our private data.
https://tinyurl.com/36s82jph

2025-02-18 21:46:30

One of the many reasons we ride for the Internet Archive 👏
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/internet-archives-deleted-websites-wayback-machine/index.html?Date=20250218&Profile=cnnpolitics&utm_content=1739880498&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram

2024-12-23 00:55:43

We’re committed to combatting the harmful influence of tech billionaires by supporting antitrust regulations + privacy laws. In 2025, we'll continue defending encryption, uphold the right to code + expose financial surveillance targeting marginalized communities.
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/699/411/913/292/265/original/6a5552e728787970.jpg

2024-12-16 22:11:50

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Reality: copyright is broken for most musicians.
It's mostly used by giant corporations to amass enough rights and power that they can generally successfully bludgeon musicians into saying whatever they want, or at least, suffering in silence.

2024-12-16 22:11:13

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But the worldview in here is pretty old and unimpressive. Basically: copyright system = only option for artists to ever make a living. (Despite the fact that most aren't making a dignified living anymore, only record and DSP execs are, see the letter.)

2024-12-16 22:09:54

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You can tell from the subheader, where the author concedes that the Internet Archive does important work, that industry execs are on their back heel way more than last time, when they sued to destroy the right to own and preserve surveillance-free digital books.
So that feels good.

2024-12-16 22:09:18

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If you can't, it breaks down to:
"SCANDAL: a nonprofit devoted to preservation advocates for the right to preserve history and culture—and the right to access it"
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"We don't actually *mean* to destroy the Archive, it's just a suit!"
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"AI is scary"

2024-12-16 22:08:31

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As they always do whenever artists organize to say "hey giant corporations with tons of $$ and PR, don't destroy the thing we love", industry titans are now responding.
Go ahead and read it if you can get past the paywall: https://www.billboard.com/pro/300-musicians-fighting-effort-protect-copyright-why/

2024-12-16 22:07:39

BREAKING: 750+ musicians are now calling on major labels to drop their $621 million lawsuit against @npub1umd…wfr7 — a suit that could destroy the entire nonprofit.
Letter sign ons remain open until Wednesday at https://SaveTheArchive.com

2024-12-16 14:05:17

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More surveillance doesn't make our communities safe. Open source projects like DeFlock are one of the ways people are pushing back: https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/

2024-12-16 14:01:49

ALPR (automatic license plate reader) surveillance tracks much more data than your license plate info- all of which is made available to police through companies like Flock 'Safety'. Here's a helpful explainer: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDdKsglTpNJ/?igsh=Z2hoOGlia2R6aGh2

2024-12-12 14:40:30

Big record labels claim to be helping musicians by destroying the @npub1umd…wfr7 !
We organized a letter with over 500 musicians who are speaking out about how this couldn't be further from the truth:
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/640/368/356/676/678/original/35c79da0e9e3ad8d.png

2024-12-09 17:47:28

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They're also demanding that the music industry realign their actions with the interests of working artists. Sign their open letter now to show your support!
https://www.savethearchive.com

2024-12-09 17:44:49

Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

2024-12-06 19:43:32

The push to ban masking in public is a threat to free speech and disability rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/progressive-dems-are-handing-trump-a-weapon-against-dissent-with-mask-bans/

2024-12-05 22:58:49

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...and the same hacker-for-hire ring implicated in the investigation was caught red-handed targeting Fight for the Future and other activists who helped win net neutrality protections in the US in 2017.
A bit 'phishy' if you ask us.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/phish-future

2024-12-05 22:56:19

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The report focuses on environmental activists who appear to have been targeted at the behest of ExxonMobil, one of DCI Group’s largest clients. But one of DCI Group’s other highest-paying clients is Verizon...
https://readsludge.com/2024/12/03/big-oils-cybermercenary-lobbyists-exposed/

2024-12-05 22:53:25

Reuters reports that the FBI has been investigating DCI Group, a DC based lobbying + PR firm, for allegedly hiring hackers to break into activists’ emails. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-lobbyist-investigated-over-hack-and-leak-environmentalist-emails-sources-2024-11-27/

2024-11-19 22:13:26

BREAKING: ACTIVISM IS WORKING. DO NOT LET UP!!
Reps that voted for #HR9495 are getting so many calls that they're publicly withdrawing their support of the nonprofit-killer bill.
Don't let Dems pre-comply with fascism. Keep calling until the vote on Thursday 11/21: https://fftf.link/no9495
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/511/908/701/809/557/original/baef8a9211e4f8df.png

2024-11-07 15:56:37

The Crypto industry cheering for authoritarianism is peak irony and reflects a woeful disconnect from decentralization and open-source values.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-crypto-support/

2024-11-05 18:28:35

AI tech is being used as a voter suppression tool to challenge voter registrations en masse.
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-plan-to-use-ai-to-purge-voter-rolls/

2024-11-04 19:40:55

New surveillance tech from an Israeli AI company aims to root out retail industry ‘Sweethearting’- opening up the door for more customer profiling.
https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-that-tracks-suspicious-friendliness-is-coming-to-a-store-near-you-2000519190

2024-10-21 17:53:56

Big pubs: Ban 500,000+ books from
@internetarchive !
Also Big pubs: Sue Florida for banning way fewer books than we literally just did!
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/346/688/945/741/274/original/182b50715a7faacd.mp4

2024-10-15 22:17:01

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We can help put a stop to the censorship and discrimination that Palestinians and Palestine advocates are facing on Meta’s platforms. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/meta-let-palestine-speak/

2024-10-15 22:01:46

As Palestinians in Gaza experience escalating, brutal military assaults social media giants like Meta continue to suppress their voices: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBKLjCoSuW5/?igsh=MWVwbGFkZGh4cXQzag==

2024-10-07 23:24:10

For 12 months we’ve watched Israel carry out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Now these atrocities continue as Israel invades Lebanon, and the systematic efforts to silence + erase Palestinian voices continues.
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2024-10-04 16:31:47

"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."
Read the full story: https://wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/250/107/870/822/341/original/68675b08422bd1bd.jpg

2024-09-30 20:01:39

A $621 million suit for ~$41,000 in "damages" for archiving thousands of musical recordings that would otherwise be lost to history.
This is nothing short of an effort to end the @npub1umd…wfr7 from major music labels and we should all be furious.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/

2024-09-27 17:46:48

“It’s the time of Orwell but with corporations." https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/
This is a must-read on the existential battle of @npub1umd…wfr7
If you wanna take action after, we've got a list of things to do at https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
https://mastodon-uploads.fightforthefuture.org/media_attachments/files/113/210/765/136/257/343/original/b903711856db4e5c.jpg

2024-09-25 20:50:27

This report highlights how AI, data collection, surveillance, and automation are interconnected in warfare and have an adverse impact on Palestinian digital rights in the context of Gaza https://shorturl.at/Qi7jQ

2024-09-24 14:51:25

"VPNs are lifelines for journalists, activists + everyday citizens. Apple's actions undermine the #privacy + #security of millions, setting a dangerous precedent for how #tech companies collaborate w/authoritarian regimes." @npub1u3y…38tr
https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/apple-keeps-removing-vpn-apps-in-russia-and-the-toll-is-worse-than-we-thought

2024-09-18 21:05:14

It's really concerning when parental controls are really more about parental surveillance, versus restricting a company’s ability to collect minors’ personal data.
https://t.co/nYmiLXwD1i

2024-09-04 19:33:11

Statement on the dangerous and myopic ruling in Hachette v @npub1umd…wfr7 today:
"Make no mistake, this suit is about taking away the right to own popular book formats and the right to be safe reading them."
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-09-04-statement-photos-on-ruling-in-hachette-v-internet-archive-this-cant-stand/