If you’ve led grassroots campaigns against surveillance or censorship, COSL wants you. Join us as Campaign Organizer (Digital Rights & Online Privacy) and coordinate global partners fighting for safer, freer digital spaces. https://c4osl.org/job/campaign-organizer-digital-rights-online-privacy/ #job
"Too often, online policy debates treat safety and freedom as a zero-sum choice: more safety is assumed to require less liberty, and more liberty is assumed to tolerate harm." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Freedom #Safety #Harm
"Too often, online policy debates treat safety and freedom as a zero-sum choice: more safety is assumed to require less liberty, and more liberty is assumed to tolerate harm." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Freedom #Safety #Harm
'Rising reactionary sentiment and right-wing extremism under Trump has accelerated the push for online age verification...Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.' - @evangreer.bsky.social , Director at @fightforthefuture.org
Whether it's ChatGPT or some other company, no one should be building tech that enables killer robots & mass surveillance.
Congress should ban both of these things. Until they do people should be boycotting to hit companies like ChatGPT where it hurts! Pledge to boycott now: quitgpt.org
Garbage Day newsletter excerpt that reads: Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck for your face- they are great for weird fucking losers that want to look down your shirt and plaster it all over Instagram
@garbageday.email hit the nail on the head with this one!
If the comparing Meta Ray-Bans to a Cybertruck doesn't send the message it needs to about how these mass surveillance tools are a terrible idea, then what will actually get through to you?
"When speech is indiscriminately censored and access is curtailed, online spaces for discussion, creativity, support, and protest either disappear or are drained of their diversity and vitality." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #Censorship #FreeExpression
"When speech is indiscriminately censored and access is curtailed, online spaces for discussion, creativity, support, and protest either disappear or are drained of their diversity and vitality." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #Censorship #FreeExpression
The goal is to completely deanonymize the internet for mass AI surveillance and we cannot let that happen.
— NO to KOSA
— NO to Section 230 reform
— NO to SCREEN Act
— NO to App Store Accountability Act
— NO to Kids Off Social Media Act
— NO 'age verification' laws
— NO to digital ID systems
Here are the bills that are in the markup. KIDS Act may have bills like KOSA on it. Nevertheless, keep calling your reps to vote no and oppose it and other censorship bills.
Your representatives need to know you don't want KOSA, KOSMA, The Screen Act, or any of the others put into law.
"Safety and liberty online should not be at odds with each other." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #OnlineSafety #Liberty
"Safety and liberty online should not be at odds with each other." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #OnlineSafety #Liberty
There is NO VALID REASON why you should have to provide your LEGAL ID to access the internet or social media! Period! GET ON THE PHONE AND TELL YOUR REPS YOU DO NOT WANT KOSA, KOSMA, OR ANY OF THE 19 BILL SURVEILLANCE PACKAGE they've lied and called "child protection" !!!!!!!!!
#savespeech
Maryland folks, please consider not voting for Alsobrooks as she is in support of stripping your rights to "protect the kids."
KOSA and KOSMA are damgerous, not a solution. Keep her out of office.
"The hatred of pornography and fiction is not an accidental or coincidental thing, as they use coded language to signal in and outgroups." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Fiction
DHS calls whistleblowers a “threat to national security.”
But without leaks to the press, the public wouldn’t know that ICE is entering homes without warrants, labeling protesters “domestic terrorists,” building surveillance tools, or pushing propaganda.
"We get another insight into the reliability of CSAM statistics from a 2019 report from Swiss authorities that 90% of the images they receive from NCMEC are later found to be lawful." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter
Yes and Democrat politicians like @rokhanna.bsky.social are pushing these mass surveillance and censorship laws. We need to hold them accountable and tell them to kill KOSA and protect Section 230
NOW is the time to make calls to your reps about KOSA, SCREEN act, section 230 and more
Call your legislators. Speak to office aides. Leave messages. Do so every day. Be loud and annoying. Get family and friends to join in.
www.congress.gov/members/find...
All those Discord alternatives that y'all are trying to push (Stoat, Matrix, Fluxer, Root, etc.) will have to comply with this as well if we don't stop this.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES EVERY DAY & TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON KOSA, SCREEN Act, & ANY OTHER INTERNET CENSORSHIP BILLS!
new from @katiemcque.bsky.social:
@riana.bsky.social has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The UK is about to criminalize incest-themed porn. There is zero doubt that this will send more people to the dark web. Governments have to accept that their quixotic attempt to be the final arbiters of Internet morality is doing far more harm than good. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
UK government is looking to ban ABDL and fictional incest porn with the same jail time as CSAM, based on a report which says "yeah we found no evidence at all of harm but the police told us looking at it makes you a pervert and that's bad."
The Labour party is such a piss take.
Again, this is not about "protecting children" this is about taking away your agency, your freedom, and surveilling you.
And we've been saying this the whole time...
Putting VPNs behind an age wall threatens our privacy.
They keep young people safe from harassment. Business networks secure. Journalists, campaigners and whistleblowers shielded from harm.
Privacy is online safety ✊️
Sign the petition to protect VPNs ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
Don’t Delete Art Editor-at-Large Emma Shapiro sits down with renowned artist Alphachanneling for a powerful conversation about censorship, suppression, and survival in today’s algorithm-driven digital landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjwy-9vu2dE #Art #Censorship #FreeExpression
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
"Identity verification efforts like these mislead people into thinking you’re more protected. Computer scientists have long sounded the alarm that a central database of thousands of ID documents will always be a lucrative target for attackers." https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/
"Think twice about what you post and do on the Internet so you can stay out of sight of ICE’s radar. Be cautious, be safe, and remember the ICE age will melt." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/
"Think twice about what you post and do on the Internet so you can stay out of sight of ICE’s radar. Be cautious, be safe, and remember the ICE age will melt." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/
"In this ongoing discussion on 'internet safety,' it is important to pay attention to who is being protected. Certainly not the users; the marginalized workers, or the young women. Not Dahl, or her family." https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/ @siridahl.com #Grok #Dox
"It is important that in this age of constant surveillance that citizens monitor what we say or post online." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/
"It is important that in this age of constant surveillance that citizens monitor what we say or post online." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
