Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy #TransDayOfVisiblity heres a punk ripper in defense of trans kids https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/evan-greer-ryan-cassata-protect-trans-kids-song-1235307077/

I wrote about why I confronted Rep Nancy Mace at the #ProjectLibertySummit: not to convince hateful bigots to stop hating, but to spark a conversation in the tech policy space about what our strategy is going into the next four years.

Will we cozy up to wannabe fascists in the name of "finding common ground"? Or will we build meaningful resistance to tech-enabled human rights abuses?

https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/p/8322f531-b5dd-42f9-acaa-41c5fa3045ef/

I spoke to NBC about my decision to confront Nancy Mace at a conference in DC.

“My goal is to call to the progressive tech policy community and ask ourselves, what is our strategy?. “Are we going to try and curry favor with people whose goals are diametrically opposed to human rights, or are we going to draw some lines in the sand and build a meaningful strategy for collective resistance to the role that technology will play in carrying out human rights violations?”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181408

The most meaningful resistance to fascism will come from grassroots social movements led by the people most impacted

We

will do our part as part of that broader movement: fighting for tech to be a tool for liberation, not tyranny

https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/technology-can-be-used-to-automate-fascism-or-to-revolt-against-it-fight-for-the-future-is-ready-for-the-battle-ahead/

it should be even more obvious now that there are clear use cases for private, censorship-resistant ways to transfer money.

it should also be obvious that "crypto industry" grifters who are backing trump don't give two shits about that & are cozying up to fascists for profit

with all love and respect to my friends that work there, big orgs like the ACLU have enough fucking money. if you're going to rage / panic donate today, please give to small frontline orgs that directly serve and are led by the communities most impacted. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11-06-rage-give-to-frontline-orgs-not-the-big-national-groups/

i've been avoiding all this mess because i have a lot going on and i doubt my platform will matter much here, but FWIW:

I'm an anarchist, an abolitionist, and a radical leftist.

I also vote and encourage others to vote. I believe in harm reduction and strategic action.

Here's our statement.

#KOSA was a bad bill. I'm glad it's dead. But i can't rest easy because Big Tech is still getting away with murder

We need privacy and antitrust legislation NOW

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-08-01-kosa-is-dead-now-its-time-to-unite-to-take-on-big-tech-for-real/

BREAKING: #KOSA is officially dead in the House.

It's infuriating how much time was wasted on a flawed, unconstitutional & controversial bill that was destined to fail, when we could have passed strong privacy or antitrust

& KOSA will be back. Stay tuned http://BadInternetBills.com

The dangerous censorship bill known as the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) just passed the Senate.

This bill will make kids less safe by giving the government power to dictate what content younger users can see online.

We can still stop it in the House: http://StopKOSA.com