Posts tagged Feinstein
Tell our Members of Congress: Protect free speech online—Stop KOSA

We’ve enjoyed decades of online life with strong protections for freedom of speech. It’s a complicated subject of rights and responsibilities, just as life—online and off—is complicated. But while the current state of things is not perfect and there may still be room for improvement, it’s a pretty good balance on the whole.

A bill introduced in the previous Congress and reintroduced in this year threatens to upset that balance. As is so often the case, the proposal is ostensibly “for the children;” the new bill is called the Kids Online Safety Act. It would force messaging services like iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp, along with social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon, to gatekeep who can participate in online life and to monitor what we say.

This is a dangerous, poorly-thought-out bill with a dangerously high number of bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate. We must stop this bill from becoming law.

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Tell the President and your Members of Congress: No Deals With Economic Terrorists!

Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress : Don't pay off blackmailers and don't negotiate with terrorists. Continue to oppose Republicans wielding the debt-ceiling law to extort cuts to Social Security, Medicare, nutrition, housing, and health programs!

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Tell Your Members of Congress: Stop the Dirty Deal AGAIN!

We fought the Dirty Deal attachment to the Continuing Resolution back in September and won! However, now The Washington Post and environment defense organizations report that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer want to attach the Manchin’s permitting bill to the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.

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