Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM

2026: the year of VPN bans?

VPN bans are starting to get fast-tracked. We need to lay plans to fight back now.   Hey John— Right now, we’re watching a bill that requires any site that hosts “adult content” to block users on VPNs.1 It seems like it’s being fast-tracked through the Wi…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM

ICYMI: Bad Internet Bills are back

Week of Action, Reddit AMA on online ID checks happening now!   Hi John, Just wanted to make sure you saw this. Today, we're kicking off the Stop Online ID Checks Week of Action with a Reddit AMA on age verification in collaboration with our friends at EF…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Bad Internet Bills are back

House to hear age verification package, including KOSA, SCREEN Act, on Tuesday.   Hey John, Just as we gear up for next week’s Stop Online ID Checks Week of Action, lawmakers in DC are showing us why we need it. On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce …

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  Sarah at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM

Don’t let them kill online anonymity

Join the Week of Action and help us take down invasive age-gating for good.   Hey John, We need a firestorm to take down online ID checks for good—so we planned one. Mark your calendar for the Stop Online ID Checks Week of Action, next week December 1st-5…

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  Reem, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM

No Ring for ICE this Halloween

Fight issues urgent Halloween safety advisory for all owners of Ring cameras   John, As millions across the country gear up for a night of trick-or-treating, the real monsters this Halloween are the Amazon Ring cameras on doorsteps. Just this month, Ring…

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  Sarah at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM

KOSA lurches forward

House to hear KOSA and other misguided “kids safety” bills, one less barrier to Senate vote.   John, The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just hit 60 cosponsors in the Senate.1 Proponents of this dangerous censorship bill just keep dragging it forward, flout…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Tell Apple and Google: Defend Free Speech, Not ICE Raids

Apple and Google are helping the government take down ICE tracking apps   Hi John, Apple and Google are helping the government by censoring apps from their app stores, including tools that help communities protect themselves from ICE and state surveilla…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Another big data leak

Discord age verification leads to devastating ID leak we all could have seen coming.   Hey John, Just months after rolling out facial recognition and online ID checks in select countries,1 social and messaging platform Discord is in hot water for a hack …

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  Jibran at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM

This is embarrassing

Is Ted Cruz really better than Democrats on the First Amendment?   John, ”I’m not for censorship…but I do think that more has to be done online.” That was Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar at last month’s POLITICO AI & Tech Summit,1 claiming she’s agai…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM

VPNs aren’t going anywhere

Thousands took action yesterday for VPNs. Now, we need to keep up the pressure.   John, We just made ourselves heard loud and clear: VPNs aren’t going anywhere. On yesterday’s Day of Action, tens of thousands of you mobilized to defend virtual private ne…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Take action against VPN bans now

They wanna ban VPNs? Today, VPN users and privacy, freedom, and safety advocates are sounding off.   Hey John, It’s like we called it. Lawmakers in Michigan *just* introduced a vile1 bill2 to ban VPNs—following authoritarian regimes from Russia3 to Myanmar…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM

New activist safety toolkit dropped!

In case it's useful—a new free + very thorough toolkit from some friends of Fight   Hey friends of Fight, Dropping a quick line that we've launched a new activist safety toolkit. We're hosting it on behalf of an anonymous group of friendly neighborhood hack…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM

VPN ban bills are here

Mark your calendars to Defend VPNs Thursday 9/25. Here’s one more way you can help.   John, There’s a big storm coming for politicians who want to mess with our VPNs. Next Thursday, September 25th is the Defend VPNs Day of Action.1 We’re calling on VPN c…

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  Leila at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Border Patrol and ICE could be tracking your car

Surveillance company Flock lied about Border Patrol having access to 80,000+ cameras in hundreds of communities   Hi John, A bombshell report from 404 Media recently revealed that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has been secretly tapping more than 80,000 A…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Did you see this YouTube update?

  Hi John - I wanted to make sure you saw this news about YouTube checking users' IDs before letting them watch videos. This is a surveillance and censorship fiasco that will restrict what people can see online and collect tons of data that can be used to m…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Losing the Internet we know and love

YouTube's age-gating ID checks are more than just annoying—they're dangerous.   John, Imagine logging onto YouTube to watch travel videos, learn tech repair, or catch up on news from Palestine, only to be met with a pop-up that blocks the content—unless y…

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  Reem, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Age Verification has come to YouTube

  Hi John - YouTube is now carding people in the U.S. to access the Internet. The company announced it will start testing on-site age verification, using AI to estimate users’ age, and then implement certain rules for younger users and place limits on wha…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM

ICYMI: Financial censorship

Two quick things you can do to stop game censorship.   Hey John, Just wanted to make sure you saw the news about payment processors censoring games on Steam and Itch.io. If you’ve already taken action below, thank you! Here are two more quick ways you can h…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Financial censorship

If we don’t fight now, payment processors will keep censoring content online.   John, I wanted to make sure you heard about how MasterCard and Visa are censoring content online, and give you an easy way to take action. Two online gaming platforms - Steam …

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Millions use VPNs. Governments want to ban them.

Banning VPNs is fascist garbage that will make us all less safe. Time to push back.   Hey John, We called it a long time ago—as soon as governments saw how useless their “age verification” laws actually were for keeping anyone safer online, they’d double …

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM

Bad idea, catastrophic execution

Thousands of IDs leaked by the Tea app put dangers of online ID checks on full display.   John, We just got more devastating proof that online ID checks are a disaster waiting to happen. The day after Fight’s Lia Holland called out the Tea app in Busine…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM

Stop surveilling our mail, stop the Comstock Act!

This archaic surveillance law threatens abortion rights and privacy nationwide.   Hi John, The Trump administration wants to create a backdoor federal abortion ban by weaponizing the Comstock Act—an archaic, 150-year old federal law that could be used to r…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Surveillance Tech Copaganda: we spent a year on this clapback

Change happens through changing cultural expectations, and storytellers are makers of culture.   Hi John, Lia here comandeering the email chutes while the rest of the team is on summer slowdown. I’m so excited, because today I have the pleasure of launch…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM

June is over but Pride is forever

  John, We joke at Fight for the Future about how we reject Pride as just a single month – for us it’s really an all-year kind of celebration. And it’s also our commitment – we’re here fighting for LGBTQ+ rights every darn day. Whether it’s defending acce…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM

TAKE ACTION: stop 10-year ban on AI rules!

The Senate votes this weekend on whether to block state AI regulations that protect our civil rights and privacy. Call today and urge them to drop the moratorium!   John, This is dangerous — Republican Senators are pushing a 10-year AI regulation moratori…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM

HAPPENING NOW: Billboard truck calls out Blumenthal’s KOSA betrayal

“You are collaborating with fascism.” “This will be your legacy.” Queer people beg Senator Blumenthal to drop KOSA sponsorship.   John, We’ve got a message for Democratic lawmakers who co-sponsor censorship bills and collaborate with Trump’s fascist agend…

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  Janus at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Tell lawmakers: don’t come to pride if you censor LGBTQ content

Happy pride! Sign on to demand better from so-called “allies”   Hey John, Pride Month is here, and this year we’re drawing a line in the sand with our so-called “allies” in Washington, state legislatures, and civil society. Every year, lawmakers and organ…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Register now: "Big Tech Fuels Genocide" Action Hour (June 4)

Register for the June 4th Action Hour and sign the petition to demand accountability.   Hi John, I wanted to let you know that the Big Tech Fuels Genocide Action Hour has been postponed until Wednesday, June 4, at 4pm PST/7pm EST. Register here! We’ll hear…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Big Tech: Stop fueling genocide in Gaza

Sign the petition to demand accountability for Big Tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war.   John, As Meta, PayPal, and Google prepare to host their annual shareholders meetings over the next two weeks (May 28,1 June 5,2 and June 63), we’re mobilizin…

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  Caitlin at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Trump trying to kill off nonprofits

This is our best chance to stop this dangerous bill for good.   John, In case you missed it, the “nonprofit killer bill”—which would give the executive branch unprecedented control to revoke nonprofit’s tax status and kill off any organization they don’t a…

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  Leila at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM

Tell Cisco to stop supplying tech for Israel’s genocide

Join the growing petition: Urge Cisco to end its complicity in Israel’s genocidal war.   John, Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians is powered by cutting edge technologies and surveillance systems supplied by Cisco Systems, a U.S. based technol…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM

KOSA reintroduced

Despite ongoing attacks on free speech, lawmakers reintroduce KOSA   John, I’ve got some tough news: This morning, Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).1 After successfully killing this pro-censorship and survei…

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  Alex at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM

URGENT: Nonprofit killer bill is back

Lawmakers vote TODAY at 2 PM on whether to give Trump the power to shut down any civil rights group he doesn’t like.   John, Remember H.R. 9495, the nonprofit killer bill that more than 100 social justice and civil rights groups came out to oppose last No…

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