New STICKERS just dropped!
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/donate?incentive=47&amount=25&tag=linksPage
Many folks on our team have creative practices and it’s such a gift that Fight has such a supportive environment that many staff interweave those endeavors in with our day to day work. It makes our output—from campaigns to design to social media content—stronger and more personal.
In 2023, our very own Hally Leigh Comics created a “Resist Surveillance Squirrel” design with the team, and since then we’ve added 4 more critter designs to the series. (In addition to creative-types, we also happen to identify with ungovernable animals.) These designs are available together in a sticker pack for the first time, including the newest design “Turn Off Ring Raccoons.”
The sticker pack is free with your $25 donation and comes with 5 high-quality stickers to make your laptop, phone case, or water bottle a bit spicier.
Plus, you’ll be contributing to the very worthy work Fight does to hold Big Tech and politicians accountable and support the communities who need it most.
https://blossom.primal.net/c88fc2fe68d839005e7dc811bc9323aa899fa0a773498d6ee0215543ac4afb37.mov
The official pretext for ID check laws is the so-called “pornography epidemic,” a moral panic that right-wing reactionaries blame for everything from falling birth rates to youth depression.
But age-gating laws are about much more than restricting porn- Republican lawmakers are using the infrastructural power of the Internet to build a surveillance & censorship machine.
Read the full paper here:
https://www.techpolicy.press/papers-please-the-republican-plan-to-wall-off-the-internet/
Day 3 of our week of action against online ID checks 🙌🏽 we’ll be hosting a live panel on LinkedIn today with nostr:nprofile1qqsq2he9m8jnddkaalh8jsp7uv9sq5gpj304tuv08pynkw8wcqgfu8gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43z790uxjl and other digital rights experts discussing the threat of online age + ID verification to the internet we love and the tools we can use to fight back.
Join us! FFTF.link/noidchecks
It’s Day 2 of our week of action against online ID checks + we need you to make some noise and call your reps letting them know censorship bills like KOSA + Online ID Checks are EXTREMELY unpopular!
Call Now +1 248-331-8665 or use our call tool: www.badinternetbills.com
NOW: Congress is holding a hearing on 19(!) kids safety bills and several would age-gate/censor the internet, particularly for LGBTQ youth.
Our policy counsel + members of our team are live-streaming analysis and reactions. Join us!
https://www.youtube.com/live/GwAAPmNa_0U?si=L3HLTc_OW7XgWScx
AMA on Online ID Checks is now live! Where the Redditors at?
Our policy counsel team will be answering questions about the dangers of online ID checks alongside policy experts at nostr:nprofile1qqsq2he9m8jnddkaalh8jsp7uv9sq5gpj304tuv08pynkw8wcqgfu8gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43z790uxjl
Day 1: Week of Action to oppose Online ID Checks.
Creatives, researchers, journalists and extremely online folks- If you had to have your face scanned for every move you make online, how would that impact you?
Not sure how to plug in or wanting some language and resources to do so?
Get the toolkit here 👇https://docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8a61-42aa-82fe-1b847e113ebb
You shouldn’t have to present your ID, credit card info, or face to be scanned just to access your favorite sites, news, or games yet this is the growing reality for Internet users globally.
We need a firestorm to take down online ID checks for good-- so we planned one. Join us for a week of action!
Israel has pre-installed spyware on all Android & iPhones https://blossom.primal.net/ee3cc59d52b5fb57f4c2f5afb9a7b52b7cc6fcfa09852853fc99c1948a90f9cb.mp4
Can’t color us surprised smh - awful!
Amazing win today!
Proud of our colleagues and coalition partners in Oakland for ousting Flock, an invasive surveillance company, and blocking a $2 million dollar contract with the city.
Excited to see this is happening across the country!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/oakland-rejects-flock-safety-cameras-surveillance/
https://blossom.primal.net/a2027fc3c600592e4f6a05a0f7709a5a5b4bcf936cc89b88ee1a33688dc82709.mov
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has drawn the ire of Democrats for years—but without it, decentralized mass protest would be near-impossible!
These findings come at a time of unparalleled financial privacy loss in the era of Palantir + a supercharged surveillance state under fascism.
In the words of Campaigns + Communications director Lia Holland of nostr:nprofile1qqsfv8wyhkm6xqgq26swkzyq8fyuuwhy6g5an0ywklux47vnp862nmspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3kzatnv4ejucm0d5hsh5w93p : "We need Signal for money, and we need it yesterday.”
We helped the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to organize risk assessments for mutual aid groups.
Now, here’s the report with digital security recs for orgs + for projects that want to build mutual aid tools:
“Fight for the Future specifically highlights Flock's involvement in releasing surveillance footage to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been escalating raids and deportation operations under the direction of the Trump administration. Flock has also provided data to law enforcement to assist in investigating people traveling out of state seeking abortion medical care. “
NO RING FOR ICE 🎃
If you’re headed out trick or treating, you could also educate neighbors with Ring doorbells using our door tag!
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/ring-equals-ice/
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
It’s an act of solidarity with our vulnerable neighbors to ditch Ring altogether but for now, please spread the word and cut those cameras OFF
spread the word: fftf.link/RingEqualsICE
https://blossom.primal.net/8756f9bf33836712ebba733f615eb24b3bbb868b847dd2b6d58ac5a8024f92eb.mp4
Join us and take action today by signing and sharing this petition to global leaders: https://www.defendvpns.com
Lawmakers are “taking a hard look” at VPNs after the total flop of the UK “age verification” rollout + we all know where that’s gonna lead—censorship fanatics are gonna try to bring the ban hammer down on VPNs.
Millions use VPNs to dodge surveillance + circumvent censorship.
Can you help us remind them what a terrible idea it is to destroy essential Internet safety infrastructure?
Sign the thing at www.DefendVPNs.com
Hey BOSTON! We’re hosting a night of queer joy + resistance with a FREE KARAOKE party with some amazing artists.
We'll share information about what you can do to ensure LGTBQ content, resources + safe spaces STAY ONLINE.
Roll thru!
https://blossom.primal.net/9da9ecb2a2dcc519f3400a0c4fd6465ba166f0dfff70edd9bc82ab77742f4f7f.mp4
The FTC should be focused on lowering the cost of these groceries and making sure data brokers don’t get more people killed …but instead they’re hosting a workshop tomorrow to pick on trans youth!
That’s why we’re joining our friends at LGBT Tech and Public Knowledge this Thursday in DC to speak with privacy experts, doctors, parents of transgender youth, & former FTC officials to combat harmful anti-trans disinformation.
Tune in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqKbnnHuq2s
