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[taotaochan]

Digital ID Mark up bills

The Digital ID (Age verification, hyper surveillance and destruction of free speech) bills will be going through full Committee markup via House Energy and commerce

THIS THURSDAY, 3/5/26 AT 9AM

After full House committee markup, it will be moved onto FULL HOUSE VOTE.

WE NEED TO STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE IT GOES ANYWHERE ELSE. A LOT IS AT STAKE!!

(x) (Update)

Tech: Guthrie readies kids’ package for markup

Punchbowl News (@punchbowlnews.bsky.social)

TECH: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie will introduce a legislative package that combines a dozen bills aimed at prot

FLOOD THOSE LINES!!!! CALL THE HOUSE REPS NOW!!!

Tell them:

NO to KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)

NO to Section 230 reform

NO to the SCREEN Act

NO to the App Store Accountability Act

NO to Digital ID systems (Age Verification)

Calling all of them takes about 1hr.

Faxing is cool but we need people to talk to live people. Take your time and split it up if needed.

House Committee Here

Call Script Here (You can also make your own)

Faxing (You get 5 free faxes)

[virovac]

Call Today! Week of Action: KOSA vote tomorrow Dec2! Bad Internet bills

This is going to be a very all hands on deck week

⭐Right off the bat, tomorrow Dec 2 ,2205 the House subcommittee on Commerce, Manufactoring, and Trade is holding a hearing to most likely pass the 19-bill package on KOSA & other age verification bills. It will most likely either go to the full house vote after and/OR an attempt to add it to the NDAA. It is VERY IMPERATIVE that we make as much noise as possible ASAP about this and make as many calls to the members of this committee as possible.

We would really appreciate if someone could compile a list of important people here. But in all honesty just call as many people as possible today. Bonus if you can call them all. It won't even take an hour. Use our updated call script here, Feel free to a shorten the message

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

You can see subcommittee members here ()(or below cut) Contact info can be found by clicking on the portraits in the link below

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with th

My own personal call scripts below the cut!

⭐ It is a week of action against digital IDs and age verification. (From Fight for the Future). Spend a lot of time today reaching out to influencers and big accts and talking about age verification. Go to this website for more info

https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org

Kat Cammack phone ontact is not on link but own website has her multiple office numbers

Daren Soto’s office only takes calls from constituents

R, Chairman Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade GUS BILIRAKIS Florida – District 12

R,Vice Chairman Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade RUSS FULCHER Idaho – District 1

D, Ranking Member Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade JAN SCHAKOWSKY Illinois – District 9 ,

R Florida – District 2 Neal Dunn, M.D.

R Florida – District 3 Kat Cammack

R California – District 23 Jay Obernolte

R Michigan – District 10 John James

R Oregon – District 2 Cliff Bentz

R Indiana – District 9 Erin Houchin

R South Carolina – District 7 Russell Fry

R Florida – District 15 Laurel Lee

R New Jersey – District 7 Tom Kean

R Colorado – District 8 Gabe Evans

R Texas – District 12 Craig Goldman

R Kentucky – District 2 Brett Guthrie

D Florida – District 14 Kathy Castor

D Florida – District 9 Darren Soto

D Massachusetts – District 3 Lori Trahan

D California – District 15 Kevin Mullin

D New York – District 9 Yvette Clarke

D Michigan – District 6 Debbie Dingell

D Texas – District 33 Marc Veasey

D Illinois – District 2 Robin Kelly

D Washington – District 8 Kim Schrier

D New Jersey – District 6 Frank Pallone

Call scripts

Republican version

“I am urging you to vote NO on the 19-bill online safety package in the House Energy and Commerce committee. Barely anything in this bill protects kids. Most of these bills are age verification bills, which Republicans and the president opposed in Britain for the fact it mass-censored conservative speech online.

and KoSA or (Kids Online Safety Act, as it’s deceptively called) is included that would be weaponized by unelected bureaucrats to censor Americans and you must wonder why Blumenthal is pushing it so hard.The bill let any state attorney general and the FTC to sue any website for “harmful” content. Including Blue States. Big Tech and credit card companies are already censoring us. That’s why they support KOSA. This is massive government overreach, Do NOT support this package. Thank you.”

Democrat version

“I am urging you to vote NO on the 19-bill online safety package in the House Energy and Commerce committee. Barely anything in this bill protects kids. Most of these bills are age verification bills, which hundreds of human rights groups including the ACLU oppose.

They require verification data be collected from children, which puts their personal data all in one place easily for hackers. A similar system has already caused problems in Britain, putting children at risks.

And the Kosa bill or (Kids Online Safety Act,) allows state attorneys to censor the internet. Do we really want Republican state lawyers deciding what can and can’t be allowed online? w need a bill that actually protects children by creating better security measures instead of more censorship and surveillance. 

 

What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers like this? Do NOT support this package. Thank you.”

@titleknown

[fullhalalalchemist]

🚨KOSA & other Age Verification bills being voted on this Thursday

House Energy and Commerce Committee will introduce a legislative package called the "Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act" that combines a dozen bills about age verification this Thursday. The new package will include the latest version of the KOSA - the Kids Online Safety Act - as well as other measures. During the markup, the panel will also consider standalone bills on an array of topics including smartphone age verification. Nonetheless, they expect a largely partisan markup. Phones. The markup will also include the App Store Accountability Act as one of the standalone measures. The proposed legislation would require users to verify their ages to create accounts on smartphones, potentially through a credit card or a government ID. Democrats have said they believe the bill is unconstitutional, citing a federal district court’s decision to pause a similar law in Texas last year. That’s being appealed. A rival, bipartisan bill would give parents more tools to manage their kids’ smartphone usage. Source

BLOW UP THOSE PHONES UNTIL THEN!!! 202-224-3121 is the phone number to connect to your congress representatives.

List of all members of the Committee. Make time to call them all if you can. (click 'Members' to get contact info): https://energycommerce.house.gov

TELL THEM NO AGE VERIFICATION!! It harms children.

If you need a call script, use this: Call Script Link

We cannot allow age verification to become a national policy in this country when ICE is kidnapping people and Palantir is planning on targeting more and more people with the current govt. We simply cannot.

[artarchangel333]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

The E&C markup will be Thursday morning!

The centerpiece is a package combining a dozen bills including the latest KOSA

Then App Store age verification and more as standalone bills

CALL YPUR REPS BEFORE THURSDAY

[vehder]

i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

[taotaochan]

Death of the Internet

Through out the month of February, Congress is trying to censor, surveil, and make the internet completely useless. Right now Congress will start promoting the gutting of Section 230, a law that prevents websites from getting sued by anyone for the actions posts of their users.

  With the Gutting of Section 230, it will cause websites to censor EVERYTHING. That includes twitter posts, fan fictions, web forums, Wikipedia pages, Art, and anything the current GOP does not like will all be censored or removed for fear of being sued. 

And with age verification coming in second, websites can not only take down your post but will document it with your face, age, home address, credit card information etc; So if the current GOP asks the states for files of people who've post certain stuff (Rather it's helping people seek healthcare or just reading fan fiction) they could potentially arrest you via ICE or police for "breaking the law."

We all know why this is happening and it is not to protect children. It is to censor and surveil. With ICE destroying communities, the Epstein files being released and people finally waking up to the bullshit lie the rich brainwashed us to believe in; They're quickly scrambling to make it stop. to make sure there is no uprising, there is no community. And that starts with the repeal of Section 230 and age verification. 

THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE GLOBALLY. 

THIS WILL AFFECT YOU. 

ITS TIME TO START KEEPING UP WITH THESE AGE VERIFICATION BILLS AND THE SUNSET 230 BILL. STAY INFORMED, SPREAD THE WORD AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. CALL THEM, FAX THEM, AND EMAIL THEM, SEND PHYSICAL LETTERS, ANYTHING TO YELL AT THEM AND TELL THEM THAT WE DO NOT WANT/NEED THIS. SAVE SECTION 230 AND SAY NO TO ALL AGE VERIFICATION BILLS.

Bills to monitor:

Sunset Section 230

Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

Screen Act

App Accountability Act (You'll have to google your state and see where that stands)

MONITOR THESE BILLS, CALL YOUR REPS, CONTACT THE LOCAL PAPER, JOURNALIST POPULAR BLOGS, INFLUENCES ETC. THE STATE OF THE INTERNET IS AT RISK AND WE NEED EVERYONE TO PULL THEIR WEIGHT!!

[musicofthenightphantomoftheopera]

PSA: KOSA IS BACK

The internet censorship and serveillance bill KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is back and rearing its ugly head and has been reintroduced. But this time Senator Richard blumenthal and Known Transphobe Senator Marsha Blackburn are determined to get it through by including it a House Energy and Commerce Commitee “child safety” package that is set to be voted on after the shutdown is over. We CANNOT let this happen. This weekend I need to see and hear everyone call House leadership and bug the hell out of them to not support KOSA. Call them. Email them. FAX them as well. Waste their ink. We beat kosa before and we can do it again. It hasn’t moved in the house or senate, but we need to do everything we can to make sure it stays that way. Remember the UK’s “Online Safety Act” is a KOSA copycat bill. They got their bs from us. So if you don’t want us to end up like that and be forced to verify your age to access stuff on the internet (aka that new bs policy on YouTube) and give the government or anybody who can hack the power to watch and track everything you say and do on the internet, fight this!

The second the govt shutdown is over, they are going to move on this bill. We need to jump ahead of the curve. FFTF recently sent out an email saying they are expecting a House vote soon.

We need to mass call, email, and fax House Leadership to tell them that we don’t want this! We beat KOSA before and we can do it again!

Call Script located in this Google doc

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

PEOPLE TO CALL:

Republican:

Steve Scalise: [phone]

Mike Johnson: [phone]

Brett Guthrie: [phone]

Gus Bilrakis: [phone]

Richard Hudson: [phone]

Democrat:

Frank Pallone: [phone]

KathyCastor: [phone]

Doris Matsui: [phone]

Scott Peters: [phone]

Debbie Dingell: [phone]

Call as many members as you can and SPREAD THE WORD!

And Ren you can still call if you’re a minor!

[thefutureoftheinternet-deactiva]

URGENT KOSA ANNOUCEMENT

Hello, I am urging you to call the House GOP leadership. They are trying to pass the kids online safety act (KOSA) along with other bills that are currently in the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Once the government shutdown is over they will move onto it. a quick run down as to why this bill mustn't pass: This bill will essentially censor the entire Internet under the guise that it's a bill to protect children when in reality it will put them in more danger. This administration could and will use this bill to not only censor freedom of speech on the internet, but LGBTQ+ rights, talk about practices that aren't Christian, POC voices, women's voices, and much more. Steve Scalise - [phone] Mike Johnson - [phone] I also urge you to call these numbers too.

Republican Phone Numbers. Steve Scalise [phone] Mike Johnson [phone] Brett Guthrie [phone] Gus Bilrakis [phone] Richard Hudson [phone]

Democratic Phone numbers. Frank Pallone [phone] Kathy Castor [phone] Doris Matsui [phone] Scott Peters [phone] Debbie Dingell [phone]

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

Here is the call script (For both Republican and Democratic States) You can also fax them too, Faxxing them takes up their ink and also costs them their time. (You can also use the scripts in the google doc I provided here.) https://faxzero.com/ And in case you don't know who your representative is you can find them here. Here is the call script (For both Republican and Democratic States) You can also fax them too, Faxxing them takes up their ink and also costs them their time. https://faxzero.com/ And in case you don't know who your representative is you can find them here.

[thefutureoftheinternet-deactiva]

[xxwebpunkxx]

If you want to know any possible ways you can help take action against the TIDA despite its passage, please read this.

In order for this plan to truly work and potentially succeed, WE NEED A TON OF PEOPLE TO BE ON BOARD WITH THIS. NOT JUST A FEW, NOT JUST A GROUP, BUT A TON IF NOT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE READY AND WILLING.

THIS PLAN SOLELY RELIES ON POWER IN NUMBERS, AND WITHOUT THAT, THIS WILL NOT WORK.

If you want to do something against the Take It Down Act and know people that also want to do something, SPREAD THIS MESSAGE AND TELL ORGS (ACLU, Fight For The Future, etc). IF WE GET THIS TO BE JUST AS BIG OF NEWS AS KOSA HAS BEEN, AND ALL COLLECTIVELY JOIN IN ON THIS PLAN COME 2026, WE CAN GET THIS LAW REPEALED ONCE THEY SEE HOW IT AFFECTS THEM TOO. THEY CAN ONLY CENSOR US IF WE LET THEM.

Just look at what happened with Jimmy Kimmel just recently. He wouldn’t have gotten his show back on the air if it wasn’t for PEOPLE SENDING BACKLASH.

THIS ADMINISTRATION IS NOT AS STRONG AS PEOPLE THINK, AND THERE ARE MANY INSTANCES OF THEM CAVING TO PRESSURE.

FASCISM ONLY WORKS IF WE LET THEM HAVE POWER. NEVER FORGET THAT.

[xxwebpunkxx]

For more context, please look at my pinned post.

[xxwebpunkxx]

I would just like to remind you all that the Take It Down Act didn’t disappear; it passed. And it WILL be implemented as soon as 2026 comes around.

”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico

If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.

If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.

Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.

Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.

Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.

CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.

CALL THE ACLU.

TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.

IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.

WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.

SO HELP US! PLEASE!

HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.

“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.

TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.

I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”

Get loud.

Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like

[taotaochan]

KOSA's back at it AGAIN!!!

Hiii So, the best people you know STILL want lie about protecting kids so they can censor the internet. Big brains:

SenBlumenthal and MarshaBlackburn

are going to meet up with House GOP >>THIS WEEK<< to try and lie to them about passing KOSA (KidsOnlineSafetyAct)

Blumenthal resumes KOSA fight; calls on Meta to release research

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act, called on Meta to release its research about youth safety risks.

I won't go into details here (You read about how deadly it is in the link below Or search KOSA on my profile) But TL;DR, if this dog shit of a bill passes, we're going to be like the UK with their doodoo bill OnlineSafetyAct

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr

PLEASE take the time out of your day to CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS AND HOUSE GOP and tell them if anything about KOSA pops up, VOTE NO. REJECT KOSA WE DON'T WANT OR NEED KOSA! To call your reps AND House GOP, Here is the link below:

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

With the ideas of Gutting section230, banning VPNs, and forcing websites to either get users to upload their ID or shutdown; things are getting mighty stupid with the demand of surveillance these senators want on the internet. Understand this:

IT IS NOT ABOUT CHILDREN. IT NEVER WAS. THIS IS ABOUT MASS SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP. THESE BILLS WILL NOT PROTECT CHILDREN. YOUR INTERNET PRIVACY IS AT RISK. WE NEED TO KEEP PUSHING BACK!!

[xxwebpunkxx]

I would just like to remind you all that the Take It Down Act didn’t disappear; it passed. And it WILL be implemented as soon as 2026 comes around.

”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico

If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.

If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.

Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.

Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.

Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.

CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.

CALL THE ACLU.

TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.

IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.

WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.

SO HELP US! PLEASE!

HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.

“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.

TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.

I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”

Get loud.

Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like

[xxwebpunkxx]

I would just like to remind you all that the Take It Down Act didn’t disappear; it passed. And it WILL be implemented as soon as 2026 comes around.

”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico

If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.

If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.

If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.

Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.

Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.

Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.

CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.

CALL THE ACLU.

TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.

IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.

WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.

WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.

SO HELP US! PLEASE!

HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.

“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.

TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.

I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”

Get loud.

Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like

[botgal]

Another important call-in has arrived.

Last Year's "Non-Profit Killer" bill, HR 9495, is now being brought back not as an individual bill, but as an amendment that House Republicans are trying to shove into their budget reconciliation bill. To the detriment of all. This hidden section would hand over the power to remove nonprofit status from Any organization the administration doesn't agree with.

YES. THAT EVEN INCLUDES WEBSITES LIKE AO3.

Tell Congress to Reject New Push for “Nonprofit Killer Bill” in House Ways & Means Markup Tomorrow

You can use this website to send a written message to your Senator AND House Congressperson. And you can use the script that comes with it to call your reps too. Please do so as soon as possible, as this is a matter of grave importance. They want to do these things in secret and rush them so we don't have time to react. This is and has always been their strategy. So please help this now if you can.

You can pare down the script from the above link for a call script. So please help by calling as well if you can. Thank you.

"As your constituent, I urge you to reject the inclusion of Section 112209 in the House Ways and Means Committee's budget reconciliation package — a dangerous provision known as the “Nonprofit Killer Bill.”

This proposed law would grant the incoming administration’s Secretary of the Treasury unchecked power to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious, charitable, and advocacy organizations based on vague allegations and even classified evidence that groups cannot challenge. It would undermine the First Amendment, violate due process, and open the door to politically motivated targeting of nonprofits — including those that speak out against U.S. foreign policy or advocate for Palestinian human rights.

This legislation follows other recent attacks on free speech, such as the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the Anti-Boycott IGO Act, which would suppress student activism and Americans’ right to boycott human rights abuses. Congress must stop this growing wave of unconstitutional overreach.

I urge you to:

1) Support any amendment to strike Section 112209;

2) Vote NO on any reconciliation package that includes this provision.

Publicly oppose efforts to silence protected advocacy and dissent. Please stand up for the First Amendment and nonprofit independence!"

[botgal]

Updated information. The next committee vote for the budget bill has announced it will be on Wednesday 5/21/2025 at 1AM.

Yes, you read that correctly. 1 AM

So I would recommend we all try to get our phone calls in to the House representatives throughout Monday and by Tuesday before noon at the latest to ensure that our messages reach the reps in time.

Majority MembersMinority MembersChairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-MA)Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)Rep. Mary Gay

A link to the House Rules Committee members so we know who to focus on. Get in as many messages as possible to tell them to remove Section 112209, the NonProfit Killer, from the budget bill. One phone call or written message can go a long way.

[botgal]

Another important call-in has arrived.

Last Year's "Non-Profit Killer" bill, HR 9495, is now being brought back not as an individual bill, but as an amendment that House Republicans are trying to shove into their budget reconciliation bill. To the detriment of all. This hidden section would hand over the power to remove nonprofit status from Any organization the administration doesn't agree with.

YES. THAT EVEN INCLUDES WEBSITES LIKE AO3.

Tell Congress to Reject New Push for “Nonprofit Killer Bill” in House Ways & Means Markup Tomorrow

You can use this website to send a written message to your Senator AND House Congressperson. And you can use the script that comes with it to call your reps too. Please do so as soon as possible, as this is a matter of grave importance. They want to do these things in secret and rush them so we don't have time to react. This is and has always been their strategy. So please help this now if you can.

You can pare down the script from the above link for a call script. So please help by calling as well if you can. Thank you.

"As your constituent, I urge you to reject the inclusion of Section 112209 in the House Ways and Means Committee's budget reconciliation package — a dangerous provision known as the “Nonprofit Killer Bill.”

This proposed law would grant the incoming administration’s Secretary of the Treasury unchecked power to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious, charitable, and advocacy organizations based on vague allegations and even classified evidence that groups cannot challenge. It would undermine the First Amendment, violate due process, and open the door to politically motivated targeting of nonprofits — including those that speak out against U.S. foreign policy or advocate for Palestinian human rights.

This legislation follows other recent attacks on free speech, such as the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the Anti-Boycott IGO Act, which would suppress student activism and Americans’ right to boycott human rights abuses. Congress must stop this growing wave of unconstitutional overreach.

I urge you to:

1) Support any amendment to strike Section 112209;

2) Vote NO on any reconciliation package that includes this provision.

Publicly oppose efforts to silence protected advocacy and dissent. Please stand up for the First Amendment and nonprofit independence!"

[botgal]

The Government Wants To Ban Your NSFW

We all knew it was coming, and now it's finally here. As of 5/8/2025, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Congresswoman Mary E Miller of Illinois have introduced to both the Senate and House what they are calling the "Interstate Obscenity Definition Act". To put it shortly, it's legislation intended to ban all forms of visual pornography and other NSFW content from the internet by amending the Communications Act of 1934.

This legislation has been introduced twice before, and both times it didn't progress very far. But with Age Verification bills and a war on NSFW content on the rise, this is not one to leave alone and hope it doesn't progress like the last times it was introduced.

The text of the prior bills as to how they intend to do this are to modify the Communications Act to disallow all forms of "obscenity" by defining it as follows:

"(38) OBSCENE; OBSCENITY.—

“(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘obscene’ or ‘obscenity’, when used in a manner or context that explicitly refers to, or could apply to, a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction, includes a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction that—

“(i) taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion;

“(ii) depicts, describes, or represents, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual acts, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, with the objective intent to arouse, titillate, or gratify the sexual desires of a person; and

“(iii) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

This is a massive overreach and an attack on First Amendment rights of free speech and exchange of information on a scale that cannot be allowed in this current political climate. So I recommend that we get ahead of this while it's still in its infancy and let your representatives know without a shadow of a doubt that we will not stand for this.

Here is the House version of the bill, H.R. 3297

H.R.3297 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To define "obscenity" for purposes of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes.

Summary of H.R.3297 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To define "obscenity" for purposes of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purpos

And here is the Senate version of the bill, S. 1671

S.1671 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): A bill to define "obscenity" for purposes of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes.

Summary of S.1671 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): A bill to define "obscenity" for purposes of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other p

Following here is a brief call or email script you can use to contact your representative and speak out against this egregious attack on your First Amendment Rights.

"This Bill [insert House/Senate bill number here] is a grave attack on our rights as American citizens to access content and speech which is guaranteed to us under the First Amendment. Whatever your opinion on prurient content or pornography is, it is a vast overreach of the government to try and take away our rights as American adults to access lawful content. A blanket ban will do nothing to solve the issues related to it, and trying to ban it outright will only drive the industry further underground and give more power to those who would try to continue the industry illegally.

The better option is regulation so that this content can remain lawful and observed to ensure that it only reaches those who are allowed to access it and ensure that those who produce it are both safe and fairly compensated. Rather than criminalizing those who produce and share it when the exchange is between legal and consenting adults.

I encourage you to vote NO on [insert House/Senate bill number here]."

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UPDATE ON THE TAKEDOWN ACT 4/7/2025

I have been informed that the House is going to have a committee hearing (energy and commerce committee) on the Take It Down Act. This is a bill that Trump has pushed hard to get passed so that he can abuse it and use it to take down social media posts criticizing him. Its another mass censorship tool disguised as "protecting kids".

Fight for the Future has provided both an explanation for why this bill is extremely dangerous, as well as a call script and direct link to your lawmakers! They couldnt make it easier. Its here:

Stop The Take It Down Act

Stop The Take It Down Act

Here is a link to the committee members. It is a full committee hearing.

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with th

This is the number for energy and commerce [phone] please call their secretary and tell them to spread the message to say no if your rep isn’t on the committee

If you’re not American tell your American friends to call that number