Elliot Porter @elliot@qoto.org

The sponsors of the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act have made it clear they want to surveil user messages. We can still stop these bills, if there’s enough public pushback. The Senate is listening. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections

The #birdsite is supposedly rolling out end-to-end encrypted DMs soon.

You're going to see a lot of stories along the lines of "Musk turns on encryption in move that will help terrorists and child predators" or whatever.

Do not. Amplify. This narrative

End to end encryption is good. If Twitter does it right, it will be unequivocally good for the world.

The questions to ask are about the implementation, is the code open source etc.

But don't dunk on encryption just cuz you wanna dunk on Musk

End-to-end encryption has the potential to protect the rights of millions of users & secure our personal messages on Twitter so they can't be read by Twitter employees, hackers, or law enforcement. IF DONE RIGHT, this is unequivocally a good thing for human rights. But...
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QT elonmusk: With latest version of app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction.

Release of encrypted DMs… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1656323611446382592

Despite changes that lawmakers have made to the latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act, it still leaves platforms with no choice but to institute censorship and age verification requirements. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

EFF has called the UK’s Online Safety Bill “a blueprint for repression around the world.”
https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks

📻📺🗞️Today, on World Press Freedom Day, 40+ pro-privacy organizations including ❤️Fight, 🐦torproject 🐦TutanotaTeam 🐦CenDemTech 🐦ProtonPrivacy 🐦Mozilla 🐦OpenMediaOrg are calling on world leaders to uphold encryption, privacy, and press freedom
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-05-03-open-letter-protect-our-rights-to-privacy-free-expression-and-press-freedom

Data brokers constantly track & collect our personal info. They know more about us than our closest friends.

But we can do something about it. 🐦CFPB wants to understand the impact these data traffickers have on our daily lives. That's why we're launching http://www.stopdatabrokers.org

i admittedly like to be right, but i wrote this in 2018 and i hate how fucking right i was

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/29/trumps-attack-trans-people-should-be-wake-up-call-mainstream-gay-rights-movement/

URGENT: We've just heard that
Senators Blumenthal and Blackburn plan to reintroduce the controversial Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) tomorrow.

They will say that they've engaged with LGBTQ groups (true) and addressed all concerns with the bill (NOT TRUE!!!)

Here's what's up: (crossposting this thread from the birdsite)

Today, so many people used EFF's Action Center to tell Congress not to pass the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act that it briefly took the system offline. It's back up, and you can take action here:

https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications