Utah politicians are trying to ban VPNs while continuing to ignore the basics of how the internet they’re trying to regulate actually works. Exactly why we preemptively endorsed any lawsuit filed to hold them accountable.

Payment processors don't have the right to censor content online. MasterCard + Visa need to back off + let these platforms host + promote games on their own terms.

Lawmakers are “taking a hard look” at VPNs after the total flop of the UK “age verification” rollout + we all know where that’s gonna lead—censorship fanatics are gonna try to bring the ban hammer down on VPNs. Millions use VPNs to dodge surveillance + circumvent censorship. Can you help us remind them what a terrible idea it is to destroy essential Internet safety infrastructure? Sign the thing at www.DefendVPNs.com

Regular reminder that consumer credit scores are younger than cell phones 💗 Using FICO and mass, computerized consumer surveillance as a startpoint here. For a detailed history, read:

Columbia University Press

Creditworthy | Columbia University Press

The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading ...

Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used.

WIRED

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could...

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world of about 2 million people, many of them are mother's that are sole caretakers of children.

Scholars Strategy Network

Mothers in Prison and the Cycle of Incarceration

The US has the (dis)honor of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.

U.S. consumers have told us they want an internet that is fast, open, and fair. It's clear that Congress needs to heed their call, take up the charge for net neutrality + put open internet principles in federal law.

Columbia Journalism Review

Net Neutrality Is Dead (Again). Journalism Could Suffer.

What a new court ruling might mean for independent local news.

BREAKING: HR 9495 Defeated! View quoted note →

"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:

WIRED

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

You've probably heard the news by now about Internet Archive. It takes a lot to stand up to greedy corporations who don't care about humanity at all and it's an honor to support their mission. Please share some love to them as they reckon with this ruling:

@internetarchive is doing incredible work to ensure access to knowledge and combat censorship and surveillance. If you want to learn how and show your support, check the link below:

Fight for the Future

Battle for Libraries

Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship....

Fight for the Future is calling on all companies with direct messaging platforms to immediately implement default end-to-end encryption for DMs and message back-ups, and on activists and organizations to join the campaign by signing on at

Fight for the Future

OPEN LETTER: Make DMs Safe

Open Letter: Make DMs Safe In 2022, Facebook handed over abortion-related direct messages between a mom and her teenage daughter to police. Now the...