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.

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 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 https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1pbdl7q/ama_we_are_digital_and_human_rights_advocates_ask/?rdt=54134

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!