#BAD BILLS

[thelunarsystemwrites]

ENDING KOSA!

The only reason it didn't pass the first two times is because we spoke out about it!

DON'T PANIC, TAKE ACTION.

LET'S GET KOSA TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!

[smollbetawooper]

A project by Fight for the Future

URGENT: Tell your reps to vote NO on H.R. 9495!

The House will vote TODAY at 4 PM to determine whether the incoming Trump administration will have the power to shut down non-profit organizations with no due process.

We can’t let Congress give Trump the power to crush dissent and target organizations fighting for justice. Tell your representatives to vote NO on this dangerous bill!

[pintadorartist]

Protect the Department of Education

The Trump administration is working to fulfill a campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education. Details are being finalized for an executive order that will have a two-part strategy to dismantle the agency. First, it will use executive authority to scale back the department’s functionality and workforce. Second, it will call for a legislative plan to redistribute the department’s power to other agencies until the department is ultimately shuttered. House Republicans have also reintroduced H.R. 899, a one-line bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

These changes would slash federal funding for public schools, eliminate support for students with disabilities, end enforcement of civil rights protections in education, and abolish federal student loan programs. This is a direct attack on students, teachers, and families—one that only benefits right-wing extremists who seek to privatize education. Tell your House Representative to protect the Department of Education and oppose H.R. 899.

Call your reps/senators:

https://5calls.org/issue/education-department-hr899/

[bekfast59]

People in Missouri.

Stop scrolling. Read this.

I will now put the entirey of a summary of a recently introduced bill.

Establishes the offense of contributing to social transition and requires a person to be placed on the sexual offender registry if guilty of the offense of contributing to social transition

They are gonna put teachers on the sex offender list for talking about trans people.

MAKE THIS VIRAL

[videogamesincolor]

GRV.T-SSG SYSTEMS VER 11/22/23

Hey, guys, just wanna remind y'all, that Bad Internet Bills has a collection of information on the United States Government's intentions to surveil and control the Internet Infrastructure to the point of violating privacy and civil liberties of the people.

The RESTRICT ACT (aka "TikTok Ban Bill"), along with a host of other bad bills, basically intends to criminalize dissent and penalize individuals using or interacting with digital infrastructure they deem 'foreign adversaries' with million dollar fines, and more than 20+ years of prison time.

It's a bad scene, and I would urge you all to look into these bills, get in contact with your representatives, lawmakers, and make some noise about this. We've already been doing this, but for anyone who isn't 100% about the issue, now if your time. Research.

Check out TikTok user, diedmadaboutit (Diggity) and their summary of the RESTRICT bill, spread those summary videos around. They urge you to read the bill on your own, however. The spread of information beyond mine or their perspectives is vital to preventing it from becoming a reality.

(The recent FCC report from Brendan Carr might have something to do with this bill, or not. I'm not sure.)

Don't just reblog this or like this and call it a day. Create your own post(s) about it,, talk to the people you know off-line about it. Get people engaged in what will have far reaching consequences for everyone in the States.

Keep your heads, keep your cool. Use your dread and fears to create informed organization around the prevention of our government from stripping us of our rights.

Because if they can do it here, they will do it elsewhere.

Happy hunting.

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[1968bullittmustang]

Hey folks I'm invoking my namesake here. It's Vital to be Angry.

The head of the copyright office was fired days ago, and the powers that be are trying to make sure that individual states cannot self regulate anything regarding AI. I am an Artist, I work hard and respect others who engage in this skill set. I assume you do too if you are even seeing this.

If you are in the states. Call your reps. Call your Senators.

Find any Representative.

Leave voice messages, speak to someone in person if you can get a hold of them.

For some more information here.

I keep my page clear of many things because I do not want to spam people thus encouraging them to ignore me as sheer background noise with all the problems we have in this world. Know that I am tired, I am justifiably upset over many other issues, I know I am not alone in that I'm sure most of you feel and know the same.

I have made these calls myself. Be direct. Be forward. Be orderly. Be Punctual. Do what you can.

[charlikesalmon]

space oddity

[thelunarsystemwrites]

WE. WILL. WIN.

KOSA Is gonna get defeated if we try hard enough, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHOSE SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT SO FAR!!

We keep pushing, keep hoping, keep fighting!

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Get KOSA trending to get it ending!

Today I managed to reach a real live human being at Senator Butler's office to register my concerns about KOSA. I went through my concerns that this bill would be used by red state AGs to silence queer people online. But then I did something that seemed to make an impression.

I got a bit more personal, and said that as a transgender person I am actually scared that this will drive me off the internet and cut me off from my community.

I also said that my friends have trans kids, who depend on the internet for support. And I'm legit worried what'll happen to them.

I think that talking about my personal worries for this bill really helped drive my message home. I got a somewhat warmer response than in the past when I've called.

I've said this before, but my guess is that if this bill passes, it will be similar to what happened with sesta-fosta.

Platforms will either ban content that might be challenged, or merely shadowban it.

There is a lot of fear-mongering right now about algorithms recommending harmful content to kids. In response, platforms may do the opposite: set up algorithms to ensure that nobody sees content that Republicans don't like.

[slothliart]

You are my affliction 🪻

Prints!

[pintadorartist]

Stop the Dismantling of USAID and Foreign Aid Funding (UPDATED 6/10) - House Vote THIS WEEK

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provides crucial humanitarian, developmental, and security assistance to countries through supplies, expertise, and funding. From advancing U.S. foreign policy to fighting the spread of disease, USAID is a pillar of American leadership abroad – yet it operates on just over 0.5% of the Federal budget.

Now, the Trump administration is taking unlawful action to dismantle USAID. After attempting to protect classified information from Musk’s unofficial department DOGE, high level officials were placed on leave and the USAID website was shut down. Secretary of State Marco Rubio then announced the agency would be absorbed into the State Department, and he handed control of daily operations to Pete Marocco—an alleged January 6th rioter who was previously accused of weaponizing his power within USAID for political gain. And on Feb 4th, it was announced that all direct hires of the agency would be put on leave, a move that will leave thousands of USAID staffers and contractors – many in conflict zones – without access to USAID systems.

The USAID was created by law and cannot be unilaterally abolished by the executive branch. This is a blatant, illegal overreach of executive power that has forced many humanitarian aid programs to shut down and put countless lives at risk around the world. Congress must not stand by while foreign aid is gutted and Trump continues to abuse his authority.

Call Tools:

Fax Tool:

[taikeero-lecoredier]

CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

Original tweet

I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

[trekkerac]

I'm having fun part 3

[hamadisthings]

AO3 IS IN TROUBLE IF CALIFORNIAN AGE VERIFICATION LAW PASSES

An upcoming Age verification bill centered in California will be voted on Monday-- And as always,instead of actually protecting kids, it will lead to more online censorship and privacy risks, as it will force websites hosting to verify their users age by sending their ID, your browser history would be linked to it. if you live California, call your reps and tell them to oppose the bill AB3080 as it highly unconstitutional.

They also deem LGBT content harmful to minors, as well as mentions of weapons and tobacco, putting them on the same level as NSFW content.

Since AO3 headquarters reside in California, much like Reddit, Twitter,Discord and Youtube (and others) who knows how bad the effects would be. Instead of just effecting Californians (even then its concerning.) the effects would be US or even worldwide. VPNs wont help.

Please take actions here (a script is included to help you) https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php

Find your rep here https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

You can also send faxes using this https://faxzero.com/

If you don't live in California, please talk about this,tag your friends and urge others to take actions, make posts and tweets using the hashtags AB3080 and NoOnAB3080

More info HERE

Edit: Lots of this information is outdated for a more recent post click here.

Voting has been delaying until Monday May 13th 2024

[thelunarsystemwrites]

STOP KOSA.

IF KOSA HAPPENS, WE'RE ALL FUCKED. CENSORSHIP EVERYWHERE, ANY MINORS WHO RELY ON THE INTERNET AS THEIR LAST HOPE? YOU'RE SCREWED.

GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".

Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.

Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.

Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.

CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US

(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)

We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.