The #JennaQuinn law could significantly reduce rates of abuse, but the U.S. House of Representatives has failed to pass it twice. Join us in telling Congress to take a stance against abuse and pass the bill.
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If we want to prevent abuse, we need people who are brave enough to have hard conversations about why it happens. The Prostasia Foundation exists to bring those people together. You can join the conversation in our forum:
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"When our words, personal photos, and videos are screened for compliance with state-mandated criteria, this interferes with our rights to free speech online." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/uk-online-safety-bill-must-not-violate-our-rights-free-speech-and-private
The #JennaQuinn law has been passed in over 25 states and twice in the U.S. Senate, but the U.S. House of Representatives has failed to even vote on it. Tell your representatives to support this vital child protection legislation: https://prostasia.org/campaign/jenna-quinn-law/
Users' rights would be infringed under a EU plan to screen all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts for child abuse content, according to internal legal advice warning that the measure would probably be annulled by the courts. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/08/eu-lawyers-plan-to-scan-private-messages-child-abuse-may-be-unlawful-chat-controls-regulation
"In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be in a permanent criminal lineup, under suspicion for child abuse." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections
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
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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
Corporal punishment is child abuse. And it's legal in many parts of the world, including in many schools.
Abolish corporal punishment worldwide now! #EndCorporalPunishment https://www.end-violence.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/Corporal%20Punishment%20-%2010%20key%20messages%202022%20%281%29.pdf
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
"Yet Congress is debating, for a third time, the EARN IT Act (S. 1207)—a bill that would threaten encryption, and instead seek to impose universal scanning of our messages, photos, and files." https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all
Advocate for the prevention of child sexual abuse and amateur paraphilia researcher. Kinda fond of human rights and that stuff.
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