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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
locked out of discord servers? Friends locked out? if youre a US citizen, you should yell at your representatives re: AV laws
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Silver-Streak 💾 @silver-streak.games · 23/09/2026
Hello Users! Discord is rolling out gambling ads. Turn that shit off immediately. Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage Sponsored Content Add "Real Money Gaming" to the list. Yes the UI is bad. More info here: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Manage Sponsored Content
Sponsored content is paid for by our partners, such as game developers, who want to offer our users a reward for engaging with their game or related content via Quests while using Discord.Discord l...
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
at the end of the day, its US law that is gonna be twisting ANY platform into complying panicking does nothing. if you want to make a diference, contact your senators and demand they vote no on KOSA, as an example of one such bill www.badinternetbills.com
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
4 years of truly abysmal people insisting this isn't how any of this works, how new and transformative content is being served, and finally there's the documentation of the people behind this crime saying "nah it's all theft, hope we get away with it"
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 17/09/2026
CALIFORNIANS: this is your reminder to blast Gov Newsom with calls before he signs away the right to accessible internet for rural, native & low income communities tomorrow to appease Trump.
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Indivisible MN03❌👑🇺🇸 @indivisiblemn03.org · 09/09/2026
🚨🚨ALERT🚨🚨 votesafe . org is a MUSK site popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remember when the government was rushing through its social media age ban that every expert said wouldn't work and they kept reassuring everyone it wouldn't apply to videogames or videogame websites?
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Texans: Make sure you are registered to vote. Being on the voter suspense list does not mean your voter registration has been purged. It simply means that local officials need an updated address before October 5th – the voter registration deadline in Texas.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Hazy/Dusk🌻🍉 @duskvortex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
hey EU friends, there's a European Citizen's Initiative from stop killing the internet to demand no digital ID and age verification to use the internet. please sign this if you can and spread the word! this needs to go viral! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
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Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026
I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fellow Texans: verify that your voter registration hasn't been suspended without your knowledge. I just double-checked mine following a link in the article; it took all of 1 minute. Make sure your voice can be heard in November.
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Texans check your voter registration and share this
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 27/08/2026
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform By now... www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-ju…
techdirt.com
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere...
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.badinternetbills.com#stop-csam In addition to calling your reps, this website has both a lot of information explaining why these bills are bad/ why section 230 must be protected, as well as petitions to sign for each individual issue! Signing petitions helps! Make your calls, sign petitions!
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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スキタダキマ〜ス🌻 @synxiec.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
Hey folks, About that AI opt-out feature Twitch was talking about? It's not just the streamers that have to turn that off. EVERYONE has to turn it off, because anything on your account, including the clips you make, will be fed to that infernal, ignominious devil machine if you don't. /1
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey, good reminder as always, yelling at websites is cathartic and all but if you actually want to avoid and maybe even roll-back on various inteenrt enshittification, one place to start thats actually productive is contacting your representatives www.badinternetbills.com
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/08/2026
Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.
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Twitch is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI
Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please contact your senators about the SCREEN ACT, which is moving through the senate commerce committee TOMORROW And while youre at it, demand opposition to KOSA and the KIDS Act as well! www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 04/08/2026
Together, these bills would allow Trump’s FTC to wipe abortion, sex ed, & LGBTQ resources off the Internet while instating nationwide age verification requirements. This could mean scanning your face or sending in your government ID just to post on Bluesky! ❌ Take action: fftf.link/bib
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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 04/08/2026
‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665
The image is a graphic poster with a vibrant red background and contrasting dark purple text. At the top, it contains the message: “Senate Commerce Committee is taking up KOSA + SCREEN Act THIS WEDNESDAY” in bold white letters. Below this, in a larger, informal handwriting-style font is the phrase “TAKE ACTION” in yellow. At the bottom of the image is a phone number, “248-331-8665,” displayed inside a rounded rectangle in dark purple. The overall layout is eye-catching and designed to attract attention to the call for action regarding legislation.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I did my calls, please do yours!
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
(3) COVERED PLATFORM.— The term "covered platform" -
(A) means an entity -
(i) that is an interactive computer service;
(ii) that-
(I) is engaged in interstate or foreign commerce;
or
(Il) purposefully avails itself of the United States
market or a portion thereof; and
(iïi) for which it is in the regular course of the trade or
business of the entity to create, host, or make available content that meets the definition of harmful to minors under paragraph (4) and that is provided by the entity, a user, or other intration conten provider, with
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
defendonlineprivacy.com
Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And for the really bad news? They've put a target on VPNs. Sites are required to identify (and age-verify) any US citizen, regardless of whether they're using a VPN. In fact, the default is to get the ID and biometrics of EVERYONE unless you can somehow prove their not a US citizen.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
These bills are being marked up this week. Please put pressure on your senators to oppose them!
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SnepShark 🔞 @snepshark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.
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MonochromeMephit @monochrome.mephit.me · 03/08/2026
Good Morning! It's a good time to start ramping up calls to your Senators about KOSA and SCREEN, alongside several other bills on Internet Censorship. Senate Committee Markup is on August 5th. There's a script in the link if you're nervous/unsure what to say! 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
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Oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act (UPDATED 6/29) - PASSED HOUSE ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates June 29, 2026: By a vote of 267-117, the House has passed H.R. 7757, the KIDS Act. The bill now moves to the Senate, though the Senate has …
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The S in KOSA is for surveillance
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/08/2026
"what can I do?" Call your reps and tell them to vote no on the Online Safety bill package because things will get worse the more censorship laws are allowed to pass. Tell your reps that payment processors must allow legal content. Go yell at youtube for their shitty TOS.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/08/2026
The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us
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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 01/08/2026
the whole article is well worth reading but here's a particularly grim excerpt from near the end, interviewing one of the creators of the three-cueing system so many kids were taught that ruined their ability to read
When I asked him what he makes of the cognitive science research, he told me he thinks scientists focus too much on word recognition. He still doesn't believe accurate word recognition is necessary for reading comprehension.

"Word recognition is a preoccupation," he said. "I don't teach word recognition. I teach people to make sense of language. And learning the words is incidental to that."

He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept.

I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"?

He dismissed my question.

"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 01/08/2026
the article in question about how a bunch of americans were taught how to read wrong, for those who haven't read it: www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you
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The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 29/07/2026
🚨 Senate Commerce Committee has just announced a markup on KOSA and other kids safety bills next week 🚨 So if you're in the US, now's a very good time to call your Senators! @fightforthefuture.org's Bad Internet Bills page makes it easy ... www.badinternetbills.com
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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 30/07/2026
KOSA's not the only bill they're marking up. The SCREEN Act is also on the agenda. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's action on that www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
fightforthefuture.org
Stop the SCREEN Act
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angie! 🏳️‍⚧️ @angiey2kbunny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this is nothing short of a catastrophic blunder on the part of the lawmakers of new york. rather than understanding that age verification is not a proper method for protecting kids online, they proceed to place in the first few cogs of the mass surveillance machine for the state. unacceptable.
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Kirsche 🐰🐱 (Commissions Open) @cherrypixelbun.gay · 30/07/2026
remember to yell at them till they buckle or get voted out and under no circumstances hand your ID to social media sites
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
KOSA and the SCREEN Act are going to be marked up inntge Senate Commerce Committee next week. Please contact your senators and demand they oppose these bills www.congress.gov/members/find... www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/re...
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Chairman Cruz Announces Kids Safety Markup    - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee Executive Session on Wednesday, August 5, 2...
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/07/2026
lmfao at this article But this is why it's so important that we put all our energy into making sure these laws don't pass, because the people who spend years trying to pass censorship laws would rather die than admit that they were wrong and will just keep digging the hole avn.com/news/legal/u...
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U.K. Lawmakers Ask Why Age Verification Isn't Working AVN
Members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the United Kingdom's bicameral Parliament, have opened an inquiry to seek feedback from the general public on the effectiveness of age-verificati...
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Despoina [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.neocities.org · 29/07/2026
Hey.... like we said, age verification laws would be used as excuse to attack queer content, I just didn't expect it to be used this way, but hey more evidence for why you should be against it.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/07/2026
The KIDS Act is not just some benign form of digital “carding.” If passed, the bouncer at the door is an online entity capturing and storing personal data from users who simply want to access legal, First Amendment-protected content on the internet, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social wrote for @coindesk.com.
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The KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance system
The fact that lawmakers are even contemplating a bill that would create a surveillance and censorship regime should be a wake-up call for everyone who values privacy and free expression, argues Electr...
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good idea to start mentioning the PROTECT Act as something to oppose now when making your calls to representatives
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