Many of you helped drive thousands of calls to lawmakers that helped defeat the nonprofit killer bill in the Fall AND in the budget package last week. We talked with Between the Lines' Counterpoint Radio about the ongoing threat

#humanrights #freepalestine

https://blossom.primal.net/5629f1c96bd2b921dfa39c77e6a84ab138deeff34ad4a66c9aa01b899ac09992.mov

Meta, Google + PayPal are preparing their annual shareholders meetings over the next 2 weeks, so we’re pressuring Big Tech execs & shareholders to end their companies’ active support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians & apartheid regime. Join us!

http://bigtechfuelsgenocide.com

As #bigtech continues to supply tools that fuel Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they’re also signing new contracts with U.S. weapons manufacturers + profiting from the mass deportations & surveillance dragnets that are terrorizing communities everywhere: https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-on-google-clouds-collaboration-with-lockheed-martin-19cd460d22d3

Thanks to activist + employee pressure, and over 300,000 letters from the public, Microsoft has admitted concerns about how Israel is using its' tech.

Tech activists are keeping the pressure on + the demand is clear: no tech for genocide!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-microsoft-to-stop-partnering-with-israels-genocide

#Microsoft + fired #Google employees join forces to disrupt Build conference calling out #bigtech for enabling the genocide of Palestinians.

https://www.theverge.com/news/669362/microsoft-employee-protest-build-conference-satya-nadella

We knew FCC Chair Benjamin Carr, co-author of # project2025, would use his perch to help billionaires + authoritarians while abandoning the agency’s actual mission of protecting the public interest.

We applaud FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez for calling him out 👏 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/media/fcc-anna-gomez-rips-weaponized-agency-brendan-carr-trump

"Across the Internet, marginalized ppl are bracing for weaponized, false takedown requests of their consensual, legal content via the Take It Down Act. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is regularly abused for censorship, Take It Down contains many of the same flaws." - Lia Holland, Communications + Campaign Director at Fight for the Future

Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used. https://www.wired.com/story/take-it-down-act-law-passes/

We killed this bill in the Fall, but because authoritarian's love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing it's head.

Keep making it as toxic as possible for lawmakers who support any bill like it:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495/

NONPROFIT KILLER BILL UPDATE: It's complicated, but so far the chaos is working in our favor...

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/5/19/measure-targeting-pro-palestine-ngos-disappears-from-us-tax-bill

We killed this bill in the Fall, but because authoritarian's love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing it's head. That's why we need to keep making it as toxic as possible for lawmakers who support any bill like it:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495/

Here’s your digital rights download with highlights you might’ve missed this past week.

https://video.nostr.build/2a71852cf18fea70215b701db91969758065c05110e36f16529c4e6f7289ab16.mp4

#tech #techpolicy #humanrights #digitalrights

Anyone still sponsoring KOSA is co-signing fascism.

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Yup- KOSA and the plan to repeal Section 230 will supercharge censorship online. No free speech, no free information, no free press.

Democratic trifecta states CAN and MUST act fast to protect their citizens by passing comprehensive privacy protections that can serve as a shield, especially for the most vulnerable.

Fftf.link/demtrifecta

Big Tech companies are aligned with the Trump administration, fueling mass deportations and arrests of political dissenters.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

Go for it!

This and the way the Custom and Border Protection, or CBP, announced plans this week to use invasive facial recognition tech to scan the faces of travelers. We're witnessing a supercharge of the already sprawling network of surveillance deployed by both government agencies and private companies alike across the United States.

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Oooop!

Movement leaders from 18 Million Rising, Kairos Fellowship, Power Switch Action, Athena Coalition and more are also featured in the series! 👇

https://mediajustice.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9dc62939f7109284a2735703&id=f2904489ae&e=2d74219487

TODAY: Media Justice is hosting an event to recap their Youtube series on how Tech Broligarchs have entrenched their power.

https://mediajustice.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817386973911/WN_piTafZEaQ3CzljIl5wypbQ#/registration

We need your help to urge lawmakers to insist that section 112209 is struck from the FY 2025 budget reconciliation before it moves forward. ✊📲

Supporters of the bill insist this is about punishing orgs that support terrorism- LIES

There are already laws in place that prohibit this.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-to-know-about-the-house-bill-that-could-punish-nonprofits-over-alleged-terrorist-ties

WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status!

Call 319-313-7674 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/961dc4bdb7a3010056a0eb08803a49ce3ae4d229d9bc8eb7f86af99309f4a9ee/cbe2914e29a4079b25767731e898a31b7d565c4e2cde1466ff392c2b77557f08.webp

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world of about 2 million people, many of them are mother's that are sole caretakers of children.

https://scholars.org/contribution/mothers-prison-and-cycle-incarceration