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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItRecently, EFF joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and 26 other organizations to send a to the Senate opposing the EARN IT Act (S. 3398), asking that the Senate oppose fast tracking the bill, and to vote NO on passage of the bill.As we have before, if passed, the EARN IT Act would threaten free expression, harm innovation, and jeopardize important security protocols. We were pleased to join with other organizations that share our concerns about this harmful bill.We sent our letter, but your Senators need to hear from you. Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose the EARN IT Act.Share ItCourts and legislatures around the globe are hotly debating to what degree online intermediaries—the chain of entities that facilitate or support speech on the internet—are liable for the content they help publish. One thing they should not be doing is holding social media users legally responsible for comments posted by...Two human rights organizations, a digital library, a sex worker activist, and a certified massage therapist on Monday a ruling that denied their constitutional challenge to FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act), an overbroad and censorious internet law that harms sex workers.The plaintiffs,...Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill deserves credit for...On Wednesday, February 9, EFF sent a to the Senate Judiciary Committee to strongly oppose S. 3538, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT Act). EFF opposed the original and amended versions of this bill in the previous Congress, and our...On the biggest internet platforms, and getting worse. It’s difficult to get it right, and at the scale of millions or billions of users, it may be impossible. It’s hard enough for humans to sift between spam, illegal content, and offensive but legal speech. Bots...Facebook needs to be reined in. Lawmakers and everyday users are mad, having heard former Facebook employee Frances Haugen how Facebook valued growth and engagement over everything else, even health and safety. But Congress’s latest effort—to regulate algorithms that recommend content on social media platforms—misses the mark.We need...Within a day of Twitter fact-checking President Donald Trump’s May 2020 false tweets about mail-in voting, federal officials began trying to find out how much government agencies spent to advertise on social media. This inquiry was likely part of a planned effort to cut that funding, ...In a disastrous ruling for online expression, innovation and competition, a federal appeals court has that internet intermediaries are on the hook for expensive litigation and potential damages for violating a person’s “right of publicity,” (i.e., the right to control the commercial use of your persona). All because...Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They’re right. Conservatives are being censored. But it’s not just conservatives who have their political speech blocked by social media giants.A federal court on Thursday night Florida’s effort to force internet platforms to host political candidates and media entities online speech, ruling that the law violated the First Amendment and a key federal law that protects users’ speech. We had the court to do so.The Florida...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItRecently, EFF joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and 26 other organizations to send a to the Senate opposing the EARN IT Act (S. 3398), asking that the Senate oppose fast tracking the bill, and to vote NO on passage of the bill.As we have before, if passed, the EARN IT Act would threaten free expression, harm innovation, and jeopardize important security protocols. We were pleased to join with other organizations that share our concerns about this harmful bill.We sent our letter, but your Senators...

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