Mask bans are a tactic of #surveillance and control. Not only do they infringe upon people’s rights to health, safety, #privacy, and #accessibility, they cause disproportionate harm to racially marginalized + #disabled people.
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/03/perfect-storm-of-criminalization-analyzing-mask-bans/
By creating a chilling effect on masking and ample opportunities for harassment and profiling, mask bans gravely escalate the life-threatening impacts of police violence, doxxing, #COVID, and #LongCOVID. They have no place on college campuses.
Mask bans are a tactic of #surveillance and control. Not only do they infringe upon people’s rights to health, safety, #privacy, and #accessibility, they cause disproportionate harm to racially marginalized + #disabled people.
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/03/perfect-storm-of-criminalization-analyzing-mask-bans/
Last month, the Trump admin added fuel to the fire, issuing letters to Columbia & Harvard demanding campus mask bans. Columbia capitulated, continuing their disastrous strategy of attacking Palestine solidarity movements at the expense of everyone’s health & privacy
It’s no secret that universities have cracked down on student speech, sacrificing campus safety & fundamental rights to quash protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In response to April 2024 encampments, a renewed tactic of suppression emerged: the campus mask ban
Real ID's are now required for entry to federal buildings + domestic flights. This is another stretch of the state surveillance arm that is placing yet more burden on everyday people while also placing more risk on vulnerable communities. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna204996
For right now, you can still fly without a Real ID- but be prepared for delays with ‘extra steps’ for ID verification. This is a good time to brush up on ways you can opt out of biometric theft. YK Hong has very thorough resources for this:
Real ID's are now required for entry to federal buildings + domestic flights. This is another stretch of the state surveillance arm that is placing yet more burden on everyday people while also placing more risk on vulnerable communities. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna204996
Digital ID's sound like a good idea for users to have more control + security but they actually just give the government more control over YOU.
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tsa-shouldnt-force-a-bad-digital-id-system-on-america
Real ID's are now required for entry to federal buildings + domestic flights. This is another stretch of the state surveillance arm that is placing yet more burden on everyday people while also placing more risk on vulnerable communities. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna204996
Check out the new Amazon Tax Loophole report from Athena for All + Powerswitch Action here: https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/amazon-and-our-rigged-tax-system
Learn more + tell lawmakers to keep their hands off Section 230
www.whatissection230.org
DOGE data updates, BigTech threats to workers and Section230 repeal killing online journalism are all on the docket for the Tech Speedrun this week!
https://video.nostr.build/305ca5f40671e4c3b6a5743751f4198651f212118fd1d5f676427aac4c9247d2.mp4
Check out the new Amazon Tax Loophole report from Athena for All + Powerswitch Action here: https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/amazon-and-our-rigged-tax-system
DOGE data updates, BigTech threats to workers and Section230 repeal killing online journalism are all on the docket for the Tech Speedrun this week!
https://video.nostr.build/305ca5f40671e4c3b6a5743751f4198651f212118fd1d5f676427aac4c9247d2.mp4
One recent memory of Skype is how Microsoft shut down accounts of Palestinians without explanation, cutting them off from crucial lifelines amidst the genocide. #skype
Texas bill SB 2880 will ban abortion pills and criminalize hosting abortion information online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech
Take action to protect online freespeech by defending Section 230 :
Texas bill SB 2880 will ban abortion pills and criminalize hosting abortion information online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech
A repeal of Section 230 threatens to make this kind of mass censorship of abortion information happen at a national scale: https://www.wired.com/story/section-230-is-a-last-line-of-defense-for-abortion-speech-online/
Texas bill SB 2880 will ban abortion pills and criminalize hosting abortion information online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech
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White House Press Secretary talked about Trump’s new tariffs while wearing an $800 dress made in… China.
Then came the brilliant and classy response from a Chinese woman wearing the same dress!
🔹Trolling level: 💯
🔹Humor: 💯
(Originally posted on X by S.L. Kanthan)
https://video.nostr.build/d943a74d38612dd8b93ec7bedde3b34ca52f1702d2d7a049704731e0bc86ed95.mp4
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May the Fourth be with you! ✨
Go to WhatisSection230.org to learn more about common misconceptions about this law and why it is important for freedom of speech, information and press online.
Whistleblowers like Timnet Gebru, fired from Google for exposing Google’s discriminatory AI products, Apple + Google collective action takers for Gaza, and unions like the historic Amazon Labor Union, all have a place in the struggle for better tech + better working conditions + a better future. ✊
https://onlabor.org/tech-worker-activism-presents-opportunities-for-building-worker-power/
Though tensions exist between ‘office’ + ‘non-office’ tech worker activism, the important underline is tech workers have ONE employer animated against their efforts to build power and hold Big Tech accountable.
Amazon uses an AI automated algorithmic systems to track worker performance, push ‘off task’ warnings, and issue automated dismissal notices. These are biased systems that can disproportionately impact vulnerable and marginalized workers.
Workers from both tech giants have accused their employers of retaliatory firings due to workers being vocal about company complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Google employees reported their employers' use of surveillance tech to track numbers of its’ workers at gatherings in effort to track union or protest organizing activities and curb dissent.
Microsoft has been accused of similar worker surveillance practices.
Reports suggest Amazon tracks worker social media for activism and internal communications for unionizing indications.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/amazon-surveillance-lawsuit-union
Amazon employees have also reported the need to forego bathroom breaks to meet demanding quotas, some even resorted to urinating in bottles.
Amazon has a record of putting profits over worker safety, forcing workers to operate at an unsafe pace, with many warehouse workers facing a higher risk of lower back, musculoskeletal injuries and burnout. https://www.economicliberties.us/big-tech-abuse-tracker/
From intense surveillance to retaliation for free speech, tech workers have a lot to say about Big Tech’s labor + human rights violations. 🪡🧵
Great news for students, Palestinian solidarity + free speech!
Pen America's newest report does a good job laying some of this out for people who are curious: https://pen.org/report/trump-administration-100-days/
Support for the Take It Down bill goes to show just how little lawmakers have learned from rampant takedown abuse of systems like the DMCA—it is indeed a slippery slope for free speech because of fake + bad-faith takedown claims. We’ll see how this plays out...
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congress-moving-forward-on-unconstitutional-take-it-down-act/
Our friends at Don’t Delete Art (DDA) have provided helpful boilerplate language for artists to include in the FTC comment page, or to add in part to your own response.
The FTC is requesting comments from social media users about online censorship. Artists- this may seem like the moment you’ve been waiting for but- HOLD UP! Before you submit comments, keep in mind who is running the FTC + their goals! Comments will likely be used to justify greater governmental control over social media, rather than bring justice to artists censored online.
For many, Star Wars was an intro to the idea of 'resistance to fascism' in fiction.
Parts of the fandom touch on its political ramifications but #Andor has galvanized many. Get Free Together is offering Project Fulcrum: Nemik's Weekly Manifesto!
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