Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. I’m asking you to join us, ACLU, Fight for the Future, and other digital rights defenders in a week of action to protect the internet. Will you take a few minutes to join us in telling Congress that these bills must not become law?
The EFF page has links to actions you can quickly take to contact your lawmaker
This is so sad to see. Rightly or wrongly, the US used to be one of the places to learn about how to make progress toward democratic freedom. Now it’s starting to look like one of the places to learn about how to transition to authoritarianism.
My country, Canada, has its own homegrown problems and its own exports of nastiness, but we have a marked tendency to look to our southern neighbour, at least for validation.
A lot of countries look at what the US is doing in terms of its internet regulation – we’re seen as a tech leader so the assumption is we know what we’re doing. But, most people in Congress are pretty clueless about the tech. “Keeping kids safe online? Sounds good to me!” And they don’t understand all the downsides of the bills.
