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URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 tumblr's nsfw ban hitting the entire internet this spring 2022
February 1, 2022
I’m so so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this
WHAT IS THE EARN IT ACT?
The EARN IT Act has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country. This is a bill that will make children less safe, undermine online safety and security, and trample free expression, because it carves out another exception to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), which the ACLU describes as “foundational to modern online communications.” This has been the law that has let the internet grow into what it is today, we’ve had this law since the 90s. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of this law because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)
The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship. Platforms will be incentivized to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSEM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.
If this bill passes, we're going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms, for fear of the liability that could come with ever accidentally hosting CSAM, as well as the erasure of end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms.
This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230.
EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please, (Right now, right wing organizers are catgorizing books about racism as ‘porn’ to ban them from schools) which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by Free Speech jurisprudence. This will 1000000% be used to eradicate anything LGBT online.
What this bill says it does on the surface is make platforms liable for their users’ activity if that activity involves sex and minors. However, because of 230, platforms are not liable at all about their users' activity. This has allowed platforms to grow and thrive and many niches online to as well. The bill also creates an unelected commission to create “best practices” to combat online child sexual exploitation. While these recommendations are nominally voluntary (so Americans have no decision on who gets to be on it), platforms that refuse to comply will be liable for criminal prosecutions and lawsuits should the government decide any of their users is engaging in online child sexual exploitation.
This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.
This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.
Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of "protecting kids" to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids.
The entire EARN IT act is based on *multiple* misunderstandings of the law and reality. It's a really really really bad policy that will do serious harm. But because Senator Blumenthal wants headlines, he'll pretend that it "helps protect the children." It won't. It'll do real damage. It will make CSEM much much worse.
One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works -- without fear of liability for any "failure." Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.
(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on "obscenity" as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)
NCOSE, the far right anti-LGBT hate group behind the global anti-sex legislations, is pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.
The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill?
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) along with a coalition of 26 civil society organizations urged the United States Senate to reject the EARN IT Act. Groups on the left and right, including the ACLU, Fight for the Future, EFF, and Hacking // Hustling oppose it. Because it threatens free expression online and will threaten marginalized people’s safety while being totally unnecessary and failing to fix the problem it claims to address. The EARN IT Act empowers states to give law enforcement access to users’ private conversations and force companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement. This is totally unnecessary. Platforms are already handing over CSAM to the federal government. It’s actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.
I don't know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the "make child pornography worse" bill, but here we are.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
EARN IT Act was introduced yesterday! And it’s already scheduled to get marked up, which is the first step post-introduction. Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES (IL, VT, CA, RI, MN, DE, CT, HI, NJ, and GA), CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND HOUSE MEMBERS NOW. THIS IS URGENT. This is who gets first crack, and folks in all have Senators who are on the Judiciary committee.
I'm guessing this month or March is when the bill would be passed if there is no opposition 😭 The bill was re-introduced yesterday, already set for markup this Thursday. This feels like an attempt to fast track it this month. Additionally the current makeup of Congress favors those who want it passed. Back in 2020 it was mostly Senate republicans and democrats who are basically republicans (just like now, check the sponsors) pushing it with Ron Wyden using the filibuster to stop their efforts. The house dems didn't want to give Trump a win and needed to appear as pro-privacy/free speech for the 2020 election. Now the dems have the presidency, both chambers of Congress and if you've noticed have spent a few years repeatedly demanding social media censorship and desperately want to give Biden victories. biden isn't like obama who opposed sopa/pipa to appeal to younger voters. This is similar to how FOSTA passed with the group who made it happen last time back again. Far as I'm aware Wyden hasn't spoken about new earn it yet but even if he does oppose it, it's very possible there will be enough Senate democrats to join the republicans in passing it beating a filibuster. Then pelosi's band of house idiots pass it and we have to choose between breaking the law because they can't stop us from using encryption or being obedient sheep to a group who consider themselves above laws.
It already has a fifth of the Senate cosponsoring it. There is a very very very real chance this bill becomes law. This is an uphill battle that's going to happen fast and quick. PLEASE, FIGHT NOW.
202-224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline.
This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.
More sources to read about this bill:
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-earn-it-act-is-anti-evidence
Fight for the Future’s Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EW8v09z8&t=1s
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220131/22423648395/senates-new-earn-it-bill-will-make-child-exploitation-problem-worse-not-better-still-attacks-encryption.shtml
EARN IT Act treats Myths as Facts.
https://surviveearnit.com/what-is-the-earn-it-act/ From 2020, but little has changed about the bill.
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/earn-it-act-back
Center for Democracy and Technology’s Statement
TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven't seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.
i called both my senators and i hope you do as well
I fucking know it's a word wall, but it's fucking VITAL to keep this from being passed. I can't do much across the pond in scotland, but if any american can help, PLEASE DO. This will affect american-based companies AND companies working on american internet. This is one of the utterly cataclysmic steps to a fash-ified, overly sanitized internet that not even the REPUBLICANS would want. Shut the bill while you can, please.
Rebloggin to both add the EFF’s take on it, which makes me even more terrified of this awful bill, and add one additional wrinkle.
There was this post circulating around Tumblr a while back talking about how “useless” it is to try and call your senators. But, while it’s less effective than most of us would like and you should do other methods if you can, the main wrinkle to people pushing back against that is that it does matter if a bunch of constituents are complaining about the same issue in aggregate, notifying that it’s a widely held sentiment.
So, in other words, we need as many people doing this as possible to make this a wave. If we get this bill dead via our input, every single voice will have counted in the end...
I will also add this article on why the EARN IT Act is so much worse than the already godawful FOSTA-SESTA, and also to Mozilla and the EFF’s own campaigns to kill this bill.
Remember, every little bit helps!
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New tumblr update is weirding me out. HAHAHA
The colors of reblog and all that. Idk.
It’s weird to think this comic predates the rise of Internet spam, though otherwise it reads like it could’ve been drawn yesterday.
I've been thinking about the phrase "verbing weirds language" for nearly 30 years
The first comic came out when I was a child and for my entire childhood my parents and I would use a deadpan, monotone voice to say “Marvy. Fab. Far out.” when we were unimpressed with something.
I still quote "Go do something you hate, being miserable builds character!" at people.
Started to play Winked cause damn Lovelink has passed its prime for me hahahaha.
THEY HAVE VOICE MESSAGES??? WHAT.
They are a lot more expensive than lovelink though that’s just the downside ugh.
Also damn Noah. Stop being perfect and vulnerable
Oh yes, let's boost that!! :D
Looks like OP edited a source to their post (but various RBs don't have it), so!! Here's the Instagram post they got his video from:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/COa2YX-jcdK
And this talented cook's YouTube channel, as well!
https://youtube.com/c/SweetImpact
Hey everyone, welcome to Sweet Impact. My name is Robert and I am a self taught baker and cake artist. Enjoy my content and hopefully I can
Oh god this reminds me of 2nd Gen sasaengs.
Those were the days. THEY WERE SO FUCKING INTENSE.
Are Sasaengs still really intense like this? Or are they worse now?
So to further out myself as a Fandom Old ™
I’m browsing ao3, as one does, and this one image struck me to the core and I just stared at the screen for like a solid 20 seconds
Oh how the world has changed
holy shit WHAT
I know this gave me anxiety
They did it. Those crazy bastards. Godsspeed, my friends.
i just want to bring attention to this tag. what a fucking powermove. absolutely insane.
This single writer is more powerful than I can even comprehend holy shit
I am old enough to remember why this is fucking amazing.
Yo anyone gonna tell us based idiots what the flub is going on here?
In the early days of the internet, Anne Rice (the writer of the Vampire Chronicles — Interview With the Vampire, Lestat, et al.) was foaming-at-the-mouth batshit crazy about anyone writing fanfic of her work. She would unleash lawyers at the drop of a hyphen for a 500-word slashfic. Fics from the 1990s will have disclaimers like “I’m making no money off this, I don’t own anything, these characters belong to X” because of Anne Rice, Paramount (Star Trek), George Lucas, and the X-Files.
More history in this post.
So for this writer posting on Archive of Our Own, which was created literally to have a safe space to host fanfic so that lawyers could not force hosting companies like Geocities to disappear our work, to write something in the Vampire Chronicles fandom, well… This person has so much fortitude that the ground probably crumbles under their feet as they walk in sheer terror.
The existance of Ao3 is an amazing thing. I’m so happy it exists.
It has been forever since I enjoyed Lovelink HAHAHAHA
The really high Paywall is such a bummer
Get a grip, Greg.
YOOOO ROY IS CAPT MUFFIN’S HUMAN?????
Did I make you smile for once? ( •᷄⌓•᷅ )
It’s a bit different from my usual content, I wanted to give you a break :’)
idk how this "prev tags" nonsense got started but i promise you i am not following a breadcrumb trail to find out what those tags were. if they're that funny then share them with the class in a reblog like a normal clown this isn't twitter
There are angry Tumblr users screaming their tags were stolen. I have been here for a fricking DECADE and this is the first time I've had to say #notmytags. #notmypost.
This is a big reason for Tumblr reblogs falling. Twitter, instagram users migrants think REBLOGS ARE SAME AS REPOSTING. THAT USING OG TAGS IS STEALING.
wow can't believe i just made this meme and already got to use it twice
we talk in the tags and then the tags go to peer review and if they're deemed Good Content somebody ELSE will put them in a reblog and publish them
replies also go to peer review and get added to the main post if they pass the board
How could you leave this in the tags, etc.
had to go through peer review. the applicant thanks the board for its approval
#FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT#I HATE PREV TAGS#KIDS YALL NEED TO STOP AND START STEALING TAGS LIKE THE GODS FUCKING INTENDED
as an Elder God(tm) of this hellsite i can verify that it is what the gods intended
Lmao you infants come into MY house then you have to play by MY rules. We steal tags here
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