Notices by Fight for the Future (fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org)

BREAKING: ACTIVISM IS WORKING. DO NOT LET UP!!

Reps that voted for #HR9495 are getting so many calls that they're publicly withdrawing their support of the nonprofit-killer bill.

Don't let Dems pre-comply with fascism. Keep calling until the vote on Thursday 11/21: https://fftf.link/no9495

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.

Tell your representatives to vote NO on this dangerous bill!

Link to call in tool is in our bio- ACT NOW!

The Crypto industry cheering for authoritarianism is peak irony and reflects a woeful disconnect from decentralization and open-source values.

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-crypto-support/

DO NOT GIVE US MONEY TODAY

You know who needs money way more than ultra-funded national organizations that are launching their pre-planned ad campaigns? Local, frontline organizations. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11-06-rage-give-to-frontline-orgs-not-the-big-national-groups/

Frontline orgs are about to face an onslaught from the human impact of a second Trump administration. At Fight for the Future, we’ve thrown together a few of our favorites we want to shout out in this moment of rage.

AI tech is being used as a voter suppression tool to challenge voter registrations en masse.

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-plan-to-use-ai-to-purge-voter-rolls/

New surveillance tech from an Israeli AI company aims to root out retail industry ‘Sweethearting’- opening up the door for more customer profiling.

https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-that-tracks-suspicious-friendliness-is-coming-to-a-store-near-you-2000519190

Big pubs: Ban 500,000+ books from
@internetarchive !

Also Big pubs: Sue Florida for banning way fewer books than we literally just did!

As Palestinians in Gaza experience escalating, brutal military assaults social media giants like Meta continue to suppress their voices: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBKLjCoSuW5/?igsh=MWVwbGFkZGh4cXQzag==

We can help put a stop to the censorship and discrimination that Palestinians and Palestine advocates are facing on Meta’s platforms. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/meta-let-palestine-speak/

Airline price gouging as Milton approached the FL coastline is atrocious + highlights a deeper issue: companies leveraging market conditions/consumer behavior data to exploit people- esp in times of crises. From flights to groceries, tech is used to inflate costs at our expense.

For 12 months we’ve watched Israel carry out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Now these atrocities continue as Israel invades Lebanon, and the systematic efforts to silence + erase Palestinian voices continues.

"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."

Read the full story: https://wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B

A $621 million suit for ~$41,000 in "damages" for archiving thousands of musical recordings that would otherwise be lost to history.

This is nothing short of an effort to end the @internetarchive from major music labels and we should all be furious.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/

“It’s the time of Orwell but with corporations." https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/

This is a must-read on the existential battle of @internetarchive

If you wanna take action after, we've got a list of things to do at https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

Statement on the dangerous and myopic ruling in Hachette v @internetarchive today:

"Make no mistake, this suit is about taking away the right to own popular book formats and the right to be safe reading them."

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-09-04-statement-photos-on-ruling-in-hachette-v-internet-archive-this-cant-stand/

STATEMENT ahead of @internetarchive oral arguments in their appeal for the right to own digital books: "The right to read without fear of being punished for what you read has never been more under threat."
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-06-27-statement-on-internet-archives-oral-arguments-in-appeal-for-the-right-to-own-digital-books/

Ok! @team is now officially known as @fight! Our mentions will look less weird now.

If Congress is going to give the FAA $105 billion, they need to bake in a ban on dangerous and discriminatory #FacialRecognition tech that the TSA is saying they're bringing to 400+ airports nationwide.

Sign the petition: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-spread-of-facial-recognition-at-airports/

Facial recognition is snake oil from big tech companies that makes us less safe, not more safe. It isn't any faster than scanning your ticket, and the data collected could be hacked and stolen, sold to third party face AI scammers.