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ID checks are straight out of the fascist censorship playbook + their goal is to wall off huge sections of the #internet with the government as the sole gatekeeper. We have to push back!

The Ring x ICE collab is really scrary

Some Democrats Are Helping the Trump Admin's Anti-LGBTQ+ Tech Agenda

s we’ve seen with censorship throughout time, these policies always impact marginalized perspectives, including LGBTQ+ content and abortion information. We’re calling on these online platforms to resist implementing online ID checks, and to commit to not pre-complying with these censorship laws.Keep the pressure on them to take strong, human-rights-preserving stances! #youtube #reddit #youtuber #redditstories

We’re outside in New York and San Francisco telling companies like @reddit + @youtube that they can shove it with online ID checks! Beyond the concerns with having to share personal data with companies that have shown they are unable to secure it, age verification laws are inherently meant to block off parts of the internet to younger users, many of them being queer youth who rely on the internet for support. Keep the pressure on these platforms to take strong, human-rights-preserving stances!

“Po 🌽rn is a notoriously ambiguous category, and this is the key to the right’s ID-checking campaign. If, like former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, ‘you know it when you see it,’ people like Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts ‘know it’ quite often: they ‘know it’ when sex educators share information about birth control options, when they flip past Drag Race on Hulu, and when the public library hosts an LGBTQ+ reading group. Republicans are not even trying to hide this: Kansas’s law explicitly defines “acts of homosexuality” as adult content. “ Read the full paper by our very own Anna Bonesteel via @techpolicy.press at the link in our bio! 👆 1h

Last week we hosted a week of action against online ID verification bills with a week of digital and in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube and Reddit to resist age and ID check requirements because they censor critical content, including life-saving abortion information. Read the full press release at the link in our bio!

Tech Speedrun this week: 🎧 Artists + activists call out Spotify on its unethical treatment of artists and shady surveillance practices. 🪪 Lawmakers are pushing invasive age-verification bills that demand IDs and face scans to access basic websites. We organized a full week of actions to fight back, and even bigger stunts are coming. 🔥 Links in bio to take action #Spotify #ArtistRights #DigitalRights #Surveillance #AgeVerification

“Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.” Read our latest press update on age verification at the link in our bio.

Being a Spotify customer in 2025 is nothing to celebrate, that’s why we’re calling on listeners, musicians, and labels to commit to boycotting Spotify instead of providing free PR through sharing their Wrapped content. Spotify has repeatedly come under fire this year for paying artists virtually nothing, pushing AI-generated slop, running ICE recruitment ads, a Payola lawsuit, and its former CEO Daniel Ek using the company’s profits to invest in AI military drones. Drop Spotify using the tools at the link in our bio! 👆 #spotify #spotifywrapped

next up for Fight for the Future’s week of action to stop online ID checks: reddit AMA over on r/prochoice tomorrow! we’ll hear from a panel of experts working against and writing about age verification and censorship laws on how these issues impact abortion access, information, and resources online. panelists include Fight’s @sarah.e.philips, @taylorlorenz, @_mandy.salley from @woodhullfreedom, and Rin Alajaji from @efforg. join us tomorrow @ r/prochoice #abortion #reproductivehealth #genderaffirmingcare

Bills like KOSA have unnecessarily divided advocates for Big Tech accountability. While some of the changes to the House version of KOSA move the bill toward being a rights-affirming piece of legislation, one change we are worried about is its preemption of state laws. State preemption is becoming increasingly common across House bills like KOSA and COPPA 2.0. We are strongly against preemption when it comes to defending human rights, and have found broad agreement among civil society and parents groups here. Many states have done what Congress refuses to: pass meaningful laws that increase privacy and protect rights in the face of rapidly advancing surveillance technologies. These laws shield everyday people from the constant tracking of where we go, our routines, how we spend, who we associate with, and what we do with our time. Preemption undoes all that work. It lowers the ceiling for privacy and protections, rather than raising the floor. We remain against preemption in KOSA and COPPA 2.0, just like we are against preemption of state AI regulations. We think that when it comes to privacy and human rights, preemption in general takes away people’s protections under state laws and destroys the work of local advocates and local communities. Let the brightest minds and best advocates across the country lead the way toward a safer and more rights-affirming future.

Do not let @spotify get away with the year they’ve really had. Our new campaign, Spotify Whacked, calls on everybody to make their first new years resolution: boycotting Spotify in 2026. Spotify has repeatedly come under fire this year for paying artists virtually nothing, running ICE recruitment ads a payola lawsuit and its former CEO Daniel Ek using the company’s profits to invest in AI military drones For most people, it takes less than an hour to leave Spotify for an ethical alternative that doesn’t fund AI killing machines. Take action and clap back at Spotify Wrapped at the link in our bio. #spotify #spotifywrapped #spotifyunwrapped

TMRW: next up on our Stop Online ID Checks week of action, a live discussion on how age verification threatens the future of the internet, with partners from @efforg @ntenorg + @gsanetwork who are fighting back against online ID checks. rsvp + more info @ fftf.link/NoIDChecks (and in our bio)

Week of action

Link in bio to join the conversation about online id checks on Reddit!

Your car is being tracked by border patrol and ICE

How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer_ breaks it down. Go to QueersAgainstCensorship.com to learn more!

How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer_ breaks it down.

We're fighting to keep online resources accessible to some of the most vulnerable while lawmakers are hell-bent on wiping queer and trans people off the internet via Trojan Horse "kids safety" bills like KOSA. This Boston LGTBQ community of activists, parents, leaders and allies are banning together to combat them and keep life-saving information on the internet for queer and trans youth.

ATTENTION: Activists, journalists, mutual aid workers, academics, cultural workers- We've got three really good reasons why YOU should be using a VPN. One good reason, as our Campaigns & Communications director, Lia Holland, points out here is solidarity.

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.

A strong coalition of Boston LGTBQ youth, their parents and allies, are speaking out for the right to keep queer and trans lifelines accessible on the internet. There are other solutions to reign in Big Tech and address the real harms these companies have on our communities and children without sacrificing trans people.

Online resources are vital for queer and trans communities, especially youth. Take action now at QueersAgainstCensorship.com to protect this access and crush online censorship bills. 3w

Censorship bills like KOSA, age verification and attempts to gut Section 230 will have a significantly harmful impact on the Boston community, and queer and trans people broadly. To Massachusetts lawmakers @elizabethwarren and @edmarkey who have shown support for KOSA, community leaders and allies in Boston have something to say 👆

We joined Queers Against Censorship coalition members, parents of queer and trans youth, and allied organizations to speak out at the Boston City Council today against KOSA and age verification legislation, censorship measures that would harm queer youth online. 🙅‍♀️ If you live in Boston- this is your time to shine by adding your voice in opposition to these bad internet bills. Go to QueersAgainstCensorship.com (link in bio) to join the fight! ✊

Boston really showed up today for queer + trans youth! 👏 Here’s a quick recap from our Director @thatevangreer Couldn’t participate in today’s advocacy? We’ve got you covered! You can take action against and spread the word about dangerous censorship legislation and press MA lawmakers at QueersAgainstCensorship.com (link in bio)

How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer_ breaks it down. Go to QueersAgainstCensorship.com to learn more!

s we’ve seen with censorship throughout time, these policies always impact marginalized perspectives, including LGBTQ+ content and abortion information. We’re calling on these online platforms to resist implementing online ID checks, and to commit to not pre-complying with these censorship laws.Keep the pressure on them to take strong, human-rights-preserving stances! #youtube #reddit #youtuber #redditstories

We’re outside in New York and San Francisco telling companies like @reddit + @youtube that they can shove it with online ID checks! Beyond the concerns with having to share personal data with companies that have shown they are unable to secure it, age verification laws are inherently meant to block off parts of the internet to younger users, many of them being queer youth who rely on the internet for support. Keep the pressure on these platforms to take strong, human-rights-preserving stances!

“Po 🌽rn is a notoriously ambiguous category, and this is the key to the right’s ID-checking campaign. If, like former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, ‘you know it when you see it,’ people like Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts ‘know it’ quite often: they ‘know it’ when sex educators share information about birth control options, when they flip past Drag Race on Hulu, and when the public library hosts an LGBTQ+ reading group. Republicans are not even trying to hide this: Kansas’s law explicitly defines “acts of homosexuality” as adult content. “ Read the full paper by our very own Anna Bonesteel via @techpolicy.press at the link in our bio! 👆 1h

Last week we hosted a week of action against online ID verification bills with a week of digital and in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube and Reddit to resist age and ID check requirements because they censor critical content, including life-saving abortion information. Read the full press release at the link in our bio!

Tech Speedrun this week: 🎧 Artists + activists call out Spotify on its unethical treatment of artists and shady surveillance practices. 🪪 Lawmakers are pushing invasive age-verification bills that demand IDs and face scans to access basic websites. We organized a full week of actions to fight back, and even bigger stunts are coming. 🔥 Links in bio to take action #Spotify #ArtistRights #DigitalRights #Surveillance #AgeVerification

“Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.” Read our latest press update on age verification at the link in our bio.

Being a Spotify customer in 2025 is nothing to celebrate, that’s why we’re calling on listeners, musicians, and labels to commit to boycotting Spotify instead of providing free PR through sharing their Wrapped content. Spotify has repeatedly come under fire this year for paying artists virtually nothing, pushing AI-generated slop, running ICE recruitment ads, a Payola lawsuit, and its former CEO Daniel Ek using the company’s profits to invest in AI military drones. Drop Spotify using the tools at the link in our bio! 👆 #spotify #spotifywrapped

next up for Fight for the Future’s week of action to stop online ID checks: reddit AMA over on r/prochoice tomorrow! we’ll hear from a panel of experts working against and writing about age verification and censorship laws on how these issues impact abortion access, information, and resources online. panelists include Fight’s @sarah.e.philips, @taylorlorenz, @_mandy.salley from @woodhullfreedom, and Rin Alajaji from @efforg. join us tomorrow @ r/prochoice #abortion #reproductivehealth #genderaffirmingcare

Do not let @spotify get away with the year they’ve really had. Our new campaign, Spotify Whacked, calls on everybody to make their first new years resolution: boycotting Spotify in 2026. Spotify has repeatedly come under fire this year for paying artists virtually nothing, running ICE recruitment ads a payola lawsuit and its former CEO Daniel Ek using the company’s profits to invest in AI military drones For most people, it takes less than an hour to leave Spotify for an ethical alternative that doesn’t fund AI killing machines. Take action and clap back at Spotify Wrapped at the link in our bio. #spotify #spotifywrapped #spotifyunwrapped

TMRW: next up on our Stop Online ID Checks week of action, a live discussion on how age verification threatens the future of the internet, with partners from @efforg @ntenorg + @gsanetwork who are fighting back against online ID checks. rsvp + more info @ fftf.link/NoIDChecks (and in our bio)

COMMENT BELOW: Why is opposing age verification important to you? How does it impact you? What are your concerns?

Tech Speedrun this week:👁️ New website Surveillance Watch exposes who is behind surveillance tech.✈️ Airlines are shutting down a program where they sold your data but automatic license plate readers are still being used to track people🎥 Vine is BACK and with no AI!

Flock's invasive surveillance practices are fueling mass deportations and destruction of our communities.

VPNs let you act as if you are accessing the internet from a location that you are not in, a useful tool for avoiding surveillance and accessing information that governments censor. But it's important to find a trustworthy VPN to avoid them gobbling up and selling your data.

Censorship bills like KOSA, age verification and attempts to gut Section 230 will have a significantly harmful impact on the Boston community, and queer and trans people broadly. To Massachusetts lawmakers @elizabethwarren and @edmarkey who have shown support for KOSA, community leaders and allies in Boston have something to say 👆

Boston really showed up today for queer + trans youth! 👏 Here’s a quick recap from our Director @thatevangreer Couldn’t participate in today’s advocacy? We’ve got you covered! You can take action against and spread the word about dangerous censorship legislation and press MA lawmakers at QueersAgainstCensorship.com (link in bio)

We joined Queers Against Censorship coalition members, parents of queer and trans youth, and allied organizations to speak out at the Boston City Council today against KOSA and age verification legislation, censorship measures that would harm queer youth online. 🙅‍♀️ If you live in Boston- this is your time to shine by adding your voice in opposition to these bad internet bills. Go to QueersAgainstCensorship.com (link in bio) to join the fight! ✊

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