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Lia Holland

@liaholland.bsky.social
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 28/05/2026
Ring may be virtue washing with their new partnership with Watch Duty, a necessary tool for many during fire season. “It seems like they've tried puppies & now they're trying, ‘Is your house on fire?’" @liaholland.bsky.social of @fightforthefuture.org tells @kcrw.com www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...
A fire burns in the background of a house, with flames visible against the structure. Ring logo is at the top left corner of the image.
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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I so appreciate this review of my book from @liaholland.bsky.social in her newsletter, Touchgrass: "Frankly, we don’t think banks or their pearl-clutching shareholders or the governments pressuring them should be able to choose who gets to own the money that they’ve earned." 🔥
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Friday in Brooklyn: the fantastic @reitman.bsky.social and her essential new book for human rights in the digital age, Transaction Denied!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/06/2026
Breaking: 20,000 people are calling on leadership at @theatlantic.com @nytimes.com @usatoday.com to be reasonable and let @archive.org preserve the news as it has for 30 years. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...
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20,000+ Call on The Atlantic, New York Times, and USA Today to keep the news in the WayBack Machine
Major news outlets cited theoretical AI concerns and ended 30 years of journalism preservation. The public is asking them to be reasonable. Over 20,000 people are calling on leadership at major news o...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/05/2026
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 03/05/2026
It’s World Press Freedom Day, and it’s important to make this point: the freedom of journalists isn’t only the freedom to write. This is the first WPFD in 30 years that the news at major media outlets isn’t being preserved. savethearchive.com/newsleaders
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sending so much love to the @accessnow.org team today. All your hard work is hugely appreciated. 💛
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
All the Writers of Rohan may now scream out loud instead of vigorously whispering… GET IT @bingewriting.bsky.social!!!!!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 13/04/2026
“We cannot let the shortsighted pursuit of profit or AI training exclusivity strangle this irreplaceable resource. It’s important for journalists to speak up now and defend the archive.” - @liaholland.bsky.social Full statement : www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...
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100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record
Rachel Maddow declares the Archive a “national treasure” as uncertainty mounts on whether today’s journalism will be preserved for future generations. Photos by Kenyatta Thomas Over 100 journalists in...
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 02/04/2026
Amazon’s Kindle e-book download & back-up restrictions gave users the push they needed to consider alternatives. Our Communications & Campaigns Director @liaholland.bsky.social spoke with @washingtonpost.com about privacy concerns as users make the switch. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Column | I broke up with my Kindle. My new e-reader treats me better.
After Amazon's Kindle removed my ability to download and back up my own e-books, I went in search of an alternative.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Happy book birthday @reitman.bsky.social! 🎂
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@allieeerose.bsky.social glad we got to spend some time together last week. Here's the website for the pretty kuffiyas! halapalestine.com/collections/...
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The Nablus Keffiyeh
Reviving a 1950 legacy handwoven keffiyehs from Nablus, Palestine. 90% cotton, rich in heritage, crafted with pride. Wear the story of resilience.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
IMO what Flock really needs is a superbowl ad.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Out on the edge of the world doing book research and having the docents show me how they would hide things in the walls without destroying the lathe and plaster. 💘
Me in an art noveau dining room looking all studious with my notebook.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
😈
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So little, so late. But it's still a beautiful fucking day.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 19/02/2026
🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 04/02/2026
“We cannot let this regime of data-supercharged fascist witness intimidation become the new normal. It is time to ban facial recognition for good and banning ICE from using it is a great start.” – ❤️Fight’s @liaholland.bsky.social
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cannot recommend this read enough. crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/r...
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Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 20/01/2026
We’re urging lawmakers to do everything within their power in order to block ICE’s reign of terror in our communities and halt the build out of surveillance tech infrastructure that will make it impossible for everyday people to do anything at all w/o Big Brother watching. @liaholland.bsky.social
Quote graphic that has an orange background and black font quoted from Lia Holland at Fight for the Future that reads “The conduct of DHS and ICE Agents in the streets of Minneapolis is a preview of the tech-supercharged oppression that we will all face if ICE is allowed billions to build a panopticon. They are already using personal data to intimidate witnesses and deploying warrantless surveillance dragnets across communities. What will these goons do with weapons-enabled drones and real-time facial recognition behind every Flock camera and Amazon Ring doorbell? Let’s never find out.”
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here’s hope in bucketfuls Minnesota is making it themselves like they’re goddamn frost bees.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/12/2025
Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies. Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
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Statement: With 230 repeal bill, Dems target 2026 as year online protest organizing and reproductive healthcare info dies
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has just reintroduced a bill in the Senate and the House to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, aka the Internet’s First Amendment, by the end of 2026...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 03/12/2025
😈 Anybody else starting to see those Spotify Wrapped posts and having some feelings? We just launched a thing for that: fftf.link/spotifywhacked
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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-...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 11/11/2025
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!
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 06/10/2025
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...
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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
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 04/10/2025
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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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 24/09/2025
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
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 25/09/2025
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...
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"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
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 22/09/2025
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
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 19/09/2025
“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...
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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 ...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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/
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Donate
Donate We rely on donations from everyday people just like you to fund our strategic activism. Please make a recurring donation to our organization so we can continue to fight for your digital rights....
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I quit the post a few years ago, but now I regret that I ever gave them a dime.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 10/09/2025
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
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Let's have a renaissance of trans everything, please.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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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Human Rights Data Analysis Group @hrdag.org · 03/09/2025
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...
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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...
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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.
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Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
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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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.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 07/08/2025
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...
Graphic with the caption ‘flawed internet let’ FOSTA SESTA seven years on in white font on a pink and purple background with a fight for the future logo in the bottom right on top of a black footer.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Literally as we launch DefendVPNs.com the UK government starts threatening content advertising VPN services... www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 31/07/2025
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.
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