Reposted by Beedle
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
![My name is [your name] and I'm one of [representative's name]'s constituents. I'm calling to urge them to vote NO on three internet
censorship bills:
• the Kids Online Safety Act - KOSA
• the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - IODA
• and the SCREEN Act
All three bills claim to protect teens by placing a duty of care on online platforms to prevent exposure to harmful things. But Republicans keep expanding the definition of "harmful." These bills are gifts to fascists.
[bail out here at 0:30 if you want]
KOSA's sponsor said it would "protect minors from the transgender in this culture." The Heritage Foundation said it would use KOSA to block abortion information. Both other bills allow the FTC to enforce them. FTC Chair Ferguson signed up "to fight wokeness" and "the trans agenda.'
The people in power now can't be trusted with laws like these.
[bail out here at 0:50 if you want]
Don't give weapons to fascists. If passed, these bills will harm LGBTQ teens, adults, and anyone who needs information on reproductive health or abortion. Vote NO on KOSA, IODA, and SCREEN.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreih6stly2ivi4kfwwqyxl4ls57lotcb5fuz5mxzhmv3g5jcwhrrf7m)
![My name is [your name] and I'm one of [representative's name]'s constituents. I'm calling to tell them to vote NO on three internet
censorship bills:
• the Kids Online Safety Act - KOSA
• the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - IODA
• and the SCREEN Act
These bills claim they'll protect kids by making online platforms block content someone somewhere decides is harmful. But I don't trust any DC elites deciding for me and my family what's harmful and what's fair and free speech.
[bail out here at 0:30 if you want]
Just like I didn't vote for Elon Musk to make decisions about Social Security, I'd absolutely never vote for the next Democrat whatever to decide if my Facebook church page or the NRA website is too "harmful" for whatever oversensitive group and needs to get censored and cancelled and taken down. There's no reason at all to give that kind of power to anyone in government ever. We have a First Amendment for a reason.
Censorship harms everyone. Vote NO on all three of these bills.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreiedumxmbbmgrqhlkfbylyeb54vfvbne7ua6czha7hewvsjbzz6msi)
