#Fuck the RESTRICT Act
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RESTRICT Act: The TikTok Ban is a Smokescreen for PATRIOT ACT 2.0. EDIT: KOSA and EARN IT Act are also back.
EDIT: So now we not only have RESTRICT to worry about, but we also have the EARN IT Act and the Kids Online Safety Act to deal with.
See here for my previous post on it. Fuck Blumenthal and Blackburn for trying to bring back two pro-censorship bills on top of the RESTRICT Act.
And Evan provides some insight on it.
EDIT: SO it turns out that Meta IS partly behind this, but it’s also due to Silicon Valley AND the government wanting more power and control. More information in the links provided below.
EDIT: List of Sponsors has been removed for easier reading. You can still find the list in the Link to the bill itself.
EDIT: Meta-related information apparently incorrect. Updated for accuracy.
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Here is a link to the bill:
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This RESTRICT Act is EXTREMELY authoritarian and violating privacy and the 1st Amendment. It’s being disguised as being about banning TikTok, but it’s VASTLY overreaching and basically gives far too much power to the government.
How bad is this bill? Bad enough that pretty much every side of the political spectrum opposes this bill once they took a closer look at it beyond the TikTok smokescreen.
The following points were articulated succinctly by tumblr user @logan-galbraith (used with permission):
This act, while saying it's to insure American's personal information will be safe from foreign powers, it goes much deeper than that.
It will give the United States Government the power to remove and ban ANY online service they deem "a security risk" while making it so they do not need just cause and do not need to clarify or release a public statement.
It allows them the power to gather American's data without our knowledge or consent and even force us to submit documentation for anything they wish.
It protects the government from scrutiny on this, and if you try to speak about it and inform people on what it ACTUALLY allows, they can claim it to be false information and charge you.
It prevents you from using a VPN as it's seen as a breach of information security, thus they can charge you. (Uncertain on accuracy. Crossed out until more concrete information is revealed)
Failure to abide by these "guidelines" can lead to a fine up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS and/or 20 YEARS in prison.
And above all it does NOTHING to prevent AMERICAN companies from collecting and selling your data.
It doesn't matter what political party you're on, because BOTH parties in office want this. This is not about sides. This is about the ENTIRE government stripping our rights away so they can keep lining their own pockets.
And that’s what the TikTok ban really is; a smokescreen for Congress to grab more power. This is the PATRIOT ACT VERSION 2. This has BIPARTISAN support and approval from the Biden Administration.
The scary part is that this bill is being approved under THIS administration...and it’s STILL incredibly bad.
What would end up happening if an openly fascist leader were brought into power? All of sudden, ANYONE and ANYTHING could become a target or considered an adversary under the flimsiest of pretenses.
What should YOU do?
Well, the same thing as past horribly invasive bills like EARN IT and KOSA; we make a LOT of noise, and get the word out.
While there has been increasing amounts of negative press and opposition on this bill, it’s hard to tell how much this has really slowed thing down. As such, getting the word out on how bad this bill is CRUCIAL. Make it EXTREMELY CLEAR that the TikTok ban is just a smokescreen, and that this is nakedly authoritarian and dangerously unconstitutional.
And PLEASE call your Senators.
Find your 2 senators numbers here.
Fax them, email them.
Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. Calmly make it clear to them that if they support this bill, then you will vote for someone else who doesn’t go along with this blatant act of authoritarian intent. CONTACT any major human rights and cybersecurity related organizations and let them know about this bill. Get this out to any local news groups that you can.
There’s some petitions by groups like ACLU: https://go.peoplepower.org/letter/tiktok-ban
They are betting on people being blissfully ignorant of this, that it’s “Just about a Silly App”, so they will not expect you to contact them about this. They are trying to weasel this through in order to give themselves more power, and we won’t be able to do anything about it without the risk of being jailed or censored.
Here’s a part of a rough script if you need one. Add in more based on what is relevant:
"Just to make you aware I do not support the TikTok ban and I do not support the Restrict Act. If this bill is passed I will not support any official who supports that bill. Instead, I will be spending all my time and energy supporting your opponents in the primaries."
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A list of links/citations:
Truthout Article 4/02/2023: Restrict Act Critics Call the Far-Reaching “TikTok Ban” Bill a “Patriot Act 2.0”
Dailydot Article 3/10/2023: “The RESTRICT Act isn’t about banning TikTok—it’s designed to force a sale”
Lawfareblog.com 3/23/2023: “Two New Bills on TikTok and Beyond: The DATA Act and RESTRICT Act”
Reuters Article 3/28/2023: “If TikTok is banned, brace for epic First Amendment fight”
VICE Article 3/29/2023: The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok
Reason Article 3/31/2023: The RESTRICT Act Would Restrict a Lot More Than TikTok
ArsTechnica Article 3/31/2023: Meta can’t buy TikTok, so it hired GOP operatives to run a smear campaign
https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1642721929013362688?s=46&t=9ilK5pqP73XDblTtTbb4Qg
https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1640527908790837250?t=nTf7qCAcXB1s1RE-fb2Cwg&s=19
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#STOPRESTRICTACT#tiktok ban#RESTRICT ACT#Fuck the RESTRICT Act#internet censorship#free speech#stop internet censorship#Mass surveillance#internet privacy#everyone for this bill wants to be even richer#legislation#politics
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I know I don't like TikTok.
But the RESTRICT BILL IS A BAD INTERNET BILL!
It's on the site!
STOP THE BILL! IF THIS PASSES, WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY'LL TAKE DOWN! THEY MAY EVEN TAKE DOWN AO3, REDDIT, EVEN HERE!
I'm already doing this with KOSA but:
CAN I GET A FUCK THE RESTRICT ACT IN THE CHAT?
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every day that part at the end of whipping girl where serano discusses how people with 'weird' genders are seen as inherently more progressive and virtuous than binary trans women who are said to be "reinforcing gender stereotypes" becomes realer and realer
#transmisogyny#the way people act like being a trans woman is more restrictive for everyone than being some flavor of nonbinary#fuck you fuck you fuck you your experiences are not universal you just hate trans women#i love being a female lady woman its fucking awesome theres so much room to express myself the exact way i want to like thats who i am#theres an infinite number of ways to simply be a woman and lots of people love that and if anything find gender microlabels stifiling#its like. wow you really just do unabashedly admit that you think trans woman is the worst gender huh
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#earn it bill#internet censorship#earn it act#stop kosa#fuck the censors#internet privacy#earn it#stop casm#lgbtq#lgbt#KOSA#Kids online safety act#restrict act#kosa#Please reblog#please spread awareness#Please sign#Fight for the future#Privacy is a human right
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MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS AND DRAWING NBMK WHEN I GET HIT WITH THE MOST RANCID EVIL BOOP. AN ILL OMEN.
#dailykugisaki#jjk#kugisaki nobara#zenin maki#Maki wears like puffy and baggy clothing just a lot of warm ass clothing its obnoxious#its obvious that her body doesn't generate heat due to the heavenly restriction#maki is one of those like horror stories where you look at somebody with termal stuff and theyre cold as shit#Kugisaki is hilariously warm#her favorite season is straight up summer if that wasn't obvious#she gets to wear what she wants and she can run around and nobody gives a FUCK#summer is just a season where you can run around and Kugisaki takes full advantage of that#its the fact she can manipulate her cursed energy good enough to where it dosent interrupt her body temperature YUHHH#also to who evil booped me#you know who you are#im getting you back as we speak#yes this is nbmk#nbmk#just saying#maki is like “whatever makes Nobara happy ill just let her do it”#ACTING LIKE KUGISAKI DOSENT WANT TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT MAKI WANTS TOO LIKE?? GIRL SPEAK THE FUCK UP#i will be back on my bear Kugisaki shit soon i can feel it in my bones#oomf. you're in luck for bear Kugi-isms
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Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s Mentopolis episode 6 (finale)
#dimension 20#dimension 20 spoilers#d20 introductions#mentopolis#mentopolis spoilers#d20 mentopolis#HOT DAMN............. what a season#that was unbelievably goofy and looney toons level silly but like. what a fun ride#i feel like the kids on bikes system really opens the door for a lot of those moments from what i've seen it's so great#also having a secret narrative stat that uses the fucking d100 as the die roll was like VERY silly but also like.#it has me going a little bit insane about like ways that could be used in like other genres or things or whatever#like god damn that's a good way to represent some aspect of character that is just so impossibly strong that like......#when they tap into that they just cannot fail#which kinda sucks in terms of balancing for gameplay but like god damn‚ narratively?#and like restricting it so that stat only sort of becomes awakened or usable when that sort of deeply rooted personal growth comes into pla#this might be kind of a weird stretch but like.... the crests from the og digimon adventure?#like if they managed to tap into those aspects of themselves and their crests glow‚ that's their d100 stat‚ their crests#and all sorts of astronomically powerful shit could sort of come about from them acting within their strongest parts of themselves in turn#i don't know. maybe i'm just too digimon brained maybe i'm just a little too hooked on that digimon ttrpg show that uses kids on bikes too#but like...................................... fuck.#i don't know‚ it could be something!#anyways i really enjoyed these sort of lightly animated scenes of the real world that elias hodge got to star in as the pov#very VERY fun how they played across the dome in game too#also oh my godddddd anastasia and fawnbrooke......... bro i'm gay#was this season sillier than fantasy high? or escape from the bloodkeep? probably#like the lore and worldbuilding was unabashedly bonkers due to it all existing in the mental manifestation of the human brain#and VERY funny at that#probably the silliest d20's ever been! but i loved it#alright‚ guess that's it for this one#see y'all next season!!
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ATTENTION MINORS
I know you guys have been seeing the posts going around about Earn-It and KOSA and things of the like, and talking about how bad those things are. And you're right, they're really, really bad. But, you're not old enough to help participate in helping out, right, since you're a minor?
WRONG.
Minors out there who are concerned about these issues: YOU CAN HELP US. KOSA and CSAM specifically are acts to create widespread censorship and invasion of privacy to "protect kids," so if anything, your younger voices are stronger than ours!
I've compiled some resources for you guys to help out. Note that if you sound old enough, you do not have to disclose your age if you don't want to. The point is that there is a public outcry, not that you're under 18.
If you don't know what the bills are or what they do, here's a Doc that explains all that with links to different reading material where you can learn all about it there (note: as of posting this, the Restrict Act is not currently updated. Check back in the future for updates to the doc).
The two we really need to worry about right now are KOSA and CSAM.
KOSA is a bill being passed that would effectively let the government censor anything they want online, which can and will include minority voices, LGBTQ content, and anything they deem "unsafe" for kids (such as the suicide hotline).
CSAM is another law that preaches about protecting kids, but would actually be used to spy on everyone. It's a trojan horse.
There are a couple more, which are all covered more in-depth here on this site (scroll down):
Here's a few more resources for you guys, and then I'll get into how you guys can help!
KOSA
CSAM
EARN-It
(Light flash warning for this one, just in case)
youtube
RESTRICT Act
Alright, with all the reading out of the way, let's get into what to do.
How YOU can help!
Minors: you are not helpless. You are not powerless. The point is that there is a public outcry, and the fact that you are so young could be an advantage to stopping bills like KOSA and CSAM.
If your voice can pass as an adult's, YOU CAN CALL.
If you don't think your voice can pass, YOU CAN EMAIL, TEXT, SIGN PETITIONS, and honestly, you MAY STILL be able to call.
Here's how calling works. It's gonna be scary the first time around, I know, but you've got this.
First: find out who your representatives are. This website right here makes that very easy. Go to the dropdown for your state and find it, and your two reps should automatically pop up.
Next, see if they're a Republican or a Democrat. This should be in parenthesis next to their names. Here's Michigan's and Mississippi's reps as examples of what that looks like:
How you phrase your words will differ depending on the party they're in, this is important.
Next, you'll see under their names an address, phone number, and some bibliography. (I kept using the Michigan ones cuz I was already on their page, so if you're from Michigan, here's the numbers right here.)
Let's get ready to call now.
Now, when I say "call," I don't mean exclusively by phone. You can also fax them or email them.
Here's a website you can use to fax them.
To find their email address, google it. [Name] email, and if they've got one, it should pop up there.
Now, the hard part: actually calling.
Before we go any further, reminder that these people are just that: people. They're not idols, they're not gods, they're not worth any more than you are. Dehumanize them as much as you need to in your head. They're not scary, they're human.
Now, for each bill, you can either make it all separate or keep all your words in one email, as it were. How you want to do this is up to you. But, if you're feeling lost for words, there are also scripts you can use as a base.
Here's an email to a Democrat about KOSA, for example:
And this one has emails for both sides:
The long and short of it goes like this:
Your name and something about you (I'm a retail worker) (I'm a minor) (I go to [name] school)
Explain why you're calling (I urge you to stop [bill])
Explain why the issue matters to YOU. (I am a minor, and pushing this law would do irreparable damage, not help us. Here's a bit of why.)
Ask the representative you're calling to help
Thank them for listening.
Keep it courteous- they'll be more likely to listen to you if you're calm and collected. I know emotions are high right now, and it's okay to let desperation in, but don't yell or scream at them, you'll only drive them away from trying to stop anything.
More than likely, you won't be speaking to that rep directly, but the message should still be clear and reach them.
If you're faxing or emailing, there's more room to go off about issues in more depth, since there isn't someone on the other end of the line. You can say as much as you'd like, but still try to keep it polite.
You guys are powerful, and your young voices can add to this fight. You do not have to be an adult to call something unjust. Stand with us. Together, your voices will make us stronger.
#Youtube#stop earn it#stop kosa#stop csam#stop restrict act#fuck online censors#fuck online censorship#important#psa#important psa
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hi could we talk about the RESTRICT bill on here ive seen like. maybe one post about it
remember the fight for net neutrality? let's bring that energy back bc this is much much worse
the tiktok part is a distraction and this will affect everything you and i do on the internet
#its not just affecting tiktok#any site or service that uses the internet with a million users is basically handed to the government to do whatever they want with it#video games#your ring camera#your alexa#this website#discord#it would also make personal identification a requirement for social media account creation#im not eloquent and i dont have a huge following but by god i will make a fucking post about it#restrict act#restrict bill#tiktok ban#possum.txt
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What's really crazy to me is that, if Restrict Act, EARN IT Act, and KOSA manage to pass, then TikTok of all things will have officially done more damage to the internet than any site I could think of. I mean, as far as I know, even 4Chan has never caused so many problems that it actually led to the censorship and surveillance of the entire internet.
#kosa#fuck tiktok#actually you know what fuck it#fuck everyone who uses tiktok as well. well maybe not everyone. just everyone who kept doing tiktok challenges and spreading misinformation#restrict act#earn it act
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tim drake (13 years old) MANIPULATED ‼️‼️‼️ bruce wayne (rich old hag) into ADOPTING him ⁉️‼️ he BLACKMAILED him, he KILLED jason, he STOLE the robin mantle, he MANSPLAINED his way into the family ‼️‼️
#dc#batfam#fanon#bruce wayne#batman#anti time drake#pro tim drake#anti jason todd#pro jason todd#jason todd#red hood#tim drake#pro damian wayne#connor hawke#cissie king jones#this is how y'all fucking act; stop restricting yourself to Batfam and read some real variety (that's even if you DO read comics)
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I mentioned this when I was musing the other day, but it is genuinely wild that the OFMD fandom has somehow gotten this divided over Izzy and Edward's character arcs given that they basically don't exist yet.
Season 1 was like 5 hours of tv, which is barely anything by tv standards, and it had to spend that time mostly on Stede's arc to speedrun him from intro-Stede to hero-Stede. Plus getting you introduced to the ensemble cast enough to care about them, getting you introduced to the concept of BlackBonnet on a "this is how they are compatible and why you should root for them once we start on the struggles" level, going on a detour to give Jim a fairly decent subplot arc, generally just being funny...
I mean, at the end of the season Izzy has gone through a complete life collapse that still only really encompasses the inciting events of his story in the series, and Edward is a main character but he didn't shift from mostly static character setup to actual arc progression until, like, the start of 1x09? And he had to split time pretty heavily with Stede so that comes out to what? 30 minutes, max?
There is a reason that a lot of my speculation as to why Izzy isn't a bigoted villain leans so heavily on show themes, genre, and doylist questions of "why not be worse?" And it's because at the moment Izzy isn't far enough on his arc to have definitively committed to a "good" or "bad" arc direction. There's just not enough content. Neither side has enough evidence purely from Izzy's character and actions to say this is where he's going, vs you could totally do that with Stede.
But I do think we have enough evidence to compare what any Izzy option would require from the writing and what they would say thematically, and I think evil bigot Izzy is both poor thematic messaging and lacking the kind of setup I feel they would need to have done by now, given how limited the show is on planned time. If they wanted him evil, they did not have the episodes to waste on close ups of his emotional devastation or using plausible surface level explanations that sidestep the actual messages they supposedly wanted him to send. He should have just skipped over that bit and been Evil™ like the Badmintons.
#our flag means death#people really do act like edward and izzy have super telegraphed endings and like. where are you getting this?#edward is the romcom relationship main character so he has a vague 'happy ending' in his future#but we don't know what that actually looks like because *edward* doesn't know. kind of a big thing he has to work out actually#and if you look at izzy in a vacuum you could write pretty much whatever the fuck you wanted for him from here#if you had no restrictions on time / resources / character focus / tone / etc?#you can pull off just about any plot you can think of from that cliffhanger. everything is up in the air. just ask the fic writers#and yet we get hate anons ranting like you personally murdered a baby for thinking a character could grow in the silly growth show#izzy hands ofmd#blackbeard ofmd#character arcs#ladyluscinia#ofmd meta
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“Stop Internet Censorship” Master List
The following is a master list for all of the major Internet Censorship and Surveillance Bills between 2022 to 2023, with the most major bills that are currently active posted below. They will each link to the Tumblr posts that I have made in the past related to them, with all of the relevant information associated.
This was made because I feel people need to get a sense for just how interconnected they really are, how much Congress and third parties are trying to desperately gain full control and access to our information and silencing anything they don’t want to see and hear, and having a centralized hub of information for them will make it easier for people to find them.
The Major Bills:
EARN IT Act: 2022 version of EARN IT Act
2023 version of EARN IT Act (No text yet, but it’s pretending to be about preventing child abuse online this time)
Enigma2Me Post on EARN IT Act
fullhalalalchemist Post on EARN IT
Condemnation of the EARN IT Act 2020 Coalition Letter
STOP EARN IT Act LINKTREE
Engadget: EARN IT Act reintroduced for the Third Time
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Kids Online Safety Act: Current Draft of 2023 KOSA bill
Enigma2Me Post on Kids Online Safety Act
STOP KOSA LinkTree
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RESTRICT Act: Read Bill Here.
Enigma2Me Post On RESTRICT Act
LoganGalbraith’s Post on RESTRICT Act
Truthout Article 4/02/2023: Restrict Act Critics Call the Far-Reaching “TikTok Ban” Bill a “Patriot Act 2.0”
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STOP CSAM Act:
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Take Action on STOP CSAM/EARN IT
TechDirt Post Against STOP CSAM Act
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So if you’ve seen the above, you’re probably asking: What can we do about it?
1) Spread the Word online!
Twitter Hashtags
For Earn It: #EARNITAct, #STOPTheEARNITAct, #NoEarnItAct
For KOSA: #KOSA, #KidsOnlineSafetyAct, STOPKOSA
For RESTRICTAct: #RESTRICTAct, #STOPRESTRICTAct
2) PLEASE call your Senators.
Find your 2 senators numbers here. Fax them, email them. Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. Calmly make it clear to them that if they support this bill, then you will vote for someone else who doesn’t go along with this blatant act of authoritarian intent.
3) CONTACT any major human rights and cybersecurity related organizations and let them know about this bill. Get this out to any local news groups that you can.
The following Google Doc contains a list of every major organization we could think of to contact, and will be updated as we find more allies in the fight against censorship and surveillance.
ANTI-CENSORSHIP MASTER LIST
Also Contact the organizations on these 2020 letters to get them to publicly speak out against the EARN IT Act like they did back then.
But for those who want to have official organizations to work with (and who usually have petitions except TechDirt), the following usually are up to date on info:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fight For the Future
Techdirt
#RESTRICT Act#EARN IT Act#Stop Kids Online Safety Act#stop internet censorship#stop restrict act#stop earn it act#FUCK BLUMENTHAL#fuck surveillance#fuck censorship
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All American school children should be taught:
1) how to contact their congressional representatives
2) that they can and should message them about anything
3) that they are not celebrities, but public servants
We were done a disservice by not learning this and it’s helped cultivate this ridiculous notion of them being untouchable and their opinions absolute.
#fuck corporate america#this is america#congress#tiktok#restrict act#politics#democrats#republican#fuck republikkkans
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This guy explains this better than I ever could. Absolutely ridiculous how they’re able to do this.
Here’s the link to the bill and the original TikTok
#tiktok#tiktok ban#bill 686#restrictive act#america#government#american government#fuck america#congress
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As a proud internet pirate I just wanna say fuck Restrict Act Bill 686. You're not keeping me from using a VPN, P2P and torrent pages.
#restrict act#bill 686#internet censorship#piracy#fuck censorship#it's not about tiktok#you'll try to strike us down but we always find a workaround
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Hey everyone. The restrict shit is not as it seems. It's literally horrible, go read up on it. It is a violation of our rights, actually.
Anywho, this country is going to shit. Its literally on the brink of collapse, imo. We're going backwards, not forwards. This country is nothing. I wish I had not been born here. I have less rights than a fucking dog.
The apocalypse is coming, but it aint gonna be zombies. Its us. Our 'leaders' who are good for nothing shitbags. I hate our country. Its pathetic. We're going to die here.
#restrict act#restrict bill#tiktok#tik toks#tik tok#tiktoks#tiktok ban#news#america#usa#united states#the us is fucked#america is a shit show#i hate this country#i hate america
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