If youre a UK resident you have a prime opportunity to push back against the Online Safety Act and online surveillance. PLEASE take a moment to fill this out and share it around

Age verification is coming for the internet — and it’s already raising red flags Legislative efforts to age-gate parts of the internet are gaining traction. Some experts warn of compliance complications and data security breaches.

“Why would we, ... in the name of protecting people, create a whole other legal mandate that requires the collection and storage of even more personally identifying information that would be subject to either data thieves or data breaches?” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com.

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested!
(Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!)
www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Healey moves to limit time teens can spend on social media, saying platforms are ‘hurting kids’ - The Boston Globe Governor Maura Healey said Tuesday that she wants "to take the power away from social media platforms and Big Tech companies and put it back in the hands of our young people and our families.”

I told the Globe “incredibly disappointing to hear the governor say that she supports the social media ‘ban’ legislation that just passed the House, which is completely unworkable, unconstitutional, and lets Big Tech off the hook while punishing parents and teens”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts

The team @fightforthefuture.org also got a page up with a simple call tool where you can enter your number, it will call your phone and connect you with your Massachusetts State Senators.

It even gives you a simple script with talking points about the legislation.

www.stoponlineidchecks.org/MA

URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

Here’s what I’ve been saying: even if you think kids should be off social media you should oppose this bill.

It lets Big Tech off the hook while punishing parents. It will force you to upload your government ID to post online, and will force parents upload sensitive docs like birth certificates

Beacon Hill takes aim at the ills of kids’ social media use - The Boston Globe Readers debate a House-passed bill that would ban children under 14 from using social media.

Excellent letter in the @bostonglobe.com today from a Northeastern researcher who is an expert on teen social media use.

In sum: yes Big Tech social media companies are harmful. But this legislation lets them off the hook and would cause even more harm
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/o...

MASSACHUSETTS!

The social media ban legislation that passed the House is a nightmare for online privacy and safety, would force YOU to upload a gov ID to post online, and would harm LGBTQ youth and undocumented families.

@fightforthefuture.org is organizing a sign-on for MA orgs opposed. DM me!

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes.

Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

STATEMENT: Massachusetts House advances unconstitutional social media ban bill that will harm LGBTQ youth and human rights www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

When it really comes down to it, so many of these "protect the children" bills are actually rooted in like 1800s social norms of children should be seen and not heard. They're inherently saying that young people have nothing valuable to say or add to society. They're about domination, not protection

Mass. House passes bill to ban kids under 14 from social media The legislation would also prohibit cellphone use during the school day.

🪡🧵The MA State House advanced HB 5349, a draconian, unconstitutional bill to ban minors from social media, force platforms to enable parental surveillance of teens’ online activity & subject everyone to online ID checks to access info or speak out online. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

“This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?”

www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

Critics warn social media ban goes too far, could ban YouTube, Wikipedia A sweeping definition of "social media" has critics warning it could rope in nearly the entire internet — including sites children rely on every day.

“We need to think very carefully about the ramifications of what that would mean for innovation on the internet and what that would mean for the openness and freedoms that we all enjoy.”

very cool that Massachusetts lawmakers, who spend all day every day talking about how they're protecting us from Trump, just passed the "upload your ID to the Palantir database in order to access social media" law while saying they're "protecting the kids"

Microsoft silently suspended developer accounts for WireGuard, VeraCrypt & Windscribe.

Zero warning. Zero notification. Zero recourse. This isn't just a support failure, it's the result of Big Tech gatekeeping. Newest video breaks it down: https://youtu.be/fTui3CQuL9I

The new social media ban in Massachusetts is so sweeping in its definition of "social media" that it would require age-verification for Wikipedia.

You don't protect kids by cutting off resources.

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Screenshot from article highlighting text that reads “But there's another important—if less prevalent—argument against the age verification laws sweeping so many states: They may ensnare way more than just pornography. Enacted as regulations of any content "harmful to minors," these could be used against sex educators, sexual health organizations, reproductive freedom groups, sex worker rights advocates, transgender rights advocates, and queer creators of all sorts.”

Online ID checks (so-called Age Verification mandates) will ruin the internet. This doesn’t just impact sex educators, it impacts everyone.

reason.com/2026/04/06/s...

Incredibly, the social media ban bill being voted on in the Massachusetts legislature is even worse and more draconian than many similar bills that have passed in red states.

It contains “parental surveillance” measures so controversial they were removed from KOSA

unworkable & unconstitutional

One more reason to get away from Windows. VeraCrypt is excellent software!!
Source: www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-termi...

We've shown how to use it in the past if you want to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25VWAGl7Tw

Massachusetts lawmakers looking to usher in ‘most restrictive’ social media ban in US Social media platforms would be required to install rigorous age-verification systems to prevent children under 14 from accessing their services

‼️MA age verification vote is TODAY‼️ Queer & Trans youth have begged Democratic lawmakers for years to stop pushing online id checks as these systems can wall off vital community life-lines & resources, yet lawmakers refuse to listen.

Make them! 📲 978-485-4694 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Mass. House set to vote on bill to ban cellphones in schools, limit teen social media use The state Senate passed a bill last July that would ban cellphones for students throughout the school day. The House plans to vote on a bill Wednesday that would go further, also banning social media ...

So this is pretty terrible. And the vote is tomorrow. Massholes, call your lawmaker ASAP at 978-485-4694 and tell them to vote NO on dangerous age verification and social media bans: www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...

Transaction Denied: Big Finance's Power to Punish Speech Big Finance's Power to Punish Speech

Out today: a book that NEEDED to exist.

Transaction Denied from @reitman.bsky.social explores how financial corporations have too much power over online speech. Blurbed by @evangreer.bsky.social and featuring @liaholland.bsky.social! bookshop.org/p/books/tran...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I read through the article and through the letters sent to these paypros and you guys should too (like please actually read them, don't rely on me). It specifically cites religious and political views but the language is wide open. This is good

If you didn’t know, Saturday is No Kings Day ❌👑! There are over THREE THOUSAND events planned all over the WORLD!

Every few days I see someone from out of the US wonder why no one in the US is protesting. And that just isn’t true. The thing is, the US is HUGE. Everyone cannot possibly congregate in one central location, so there are smaller protests across the country.

And, that’s not a bad thing. The way our government works, having smaller events in red areas has more of a chance of changing hearts and minds than any single massive protest could ever have.

But that means, unless it’s a massive day of protest all around the world, like Saturday will be — from the outside, it looks like no one is protesting at all.

Do NOT minimize No Kings❌👑 on Saturday!
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please keep making calls about these bills and policies!

The Postal Service may be out of cash in 2027 without Congress' help, postmaster says The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements.

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements. n.pr/4bu15df