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Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core.

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If Congress is going to give the FAA $105 billion, they need to bake in a ban on dangerous and discriminatory tech that the TSA is saying they're bringing to 400+ airports nationwide.

Sign the petition: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-spread-of-facial-recognition-at-airports/

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Facial recognition is snake oil from big tech companies that makes us less safe, not more safe. It isn't any faster than scanning your ticket, and the data collected could be hacked and stolen, sold to third party face AI scammers.

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Worse, facial recognition disproportionately misidentifies Black and brown people, doubling down on the racial profiling and discrimination US airports are known for around the world.

Why are we giving our tax dollars to facial recognition companies w/racist tech?!

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It's far past time for Congress to take action and ban facial recognition completely, but the FAA bill presents an opportunity to go after one of the ways in which this creepy surveillance tech is being nonconsensually forced into our lives.

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Tell Congress to ban facial recognition from airports now and just scan people's tickets like we all want! Propping up facial recognition's use can only hurt our digital and human rights.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-spread-of-facial-recognition-at-airports/

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Devastating coverage of the harms cause to workers, patients, and activists—including stories from two of our staff at ❤️Fight.

We need the yesterday so we can opt out of this abuse-to-profit machine. https://19thnews.org/2024/04/doxxing-personal-data-reproductive-health-care-workers/

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Tomorrow, @internetarchive will file their reply brief in the suit from major to end the right of IA and all to own and preserve -free digital .

Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask:

Who is the real “Napster” here?

A thread.

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What the Archive’s book library does is scan paper books to make their own digital copies so that they can loan them without letting tech companies and publishing conglomerates spy on readers. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-12-07-25-human-rights-organizations-call-on-2024-congress-to-investigate-big-tech-and-publishings-stranglehold-over-digital-books

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And loan such books out in a 1-to-1 ratio, just like they would the paper book sitting in their warehouse, without paying totally atrocious licensing fees over and over.
https://ebooksforus.com/

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But tomorrow, Internet Archive is replying to legal arguments that libraries scanning and loaning the books they own amounts to the impact of on the in the ‘00s, but for publishing revenue.

…does it now?

The even included this chart in their amicus brief, which shows how recording industry revenues plunged down by half over the years that the internet really started to happen.

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(Whether that was the fault of piracy or just the fact that dinosaur record execs were plugging their ears and saying “lalala the internet doesn’t exist” is for another thread.

As is the fact that recording industry profits are higher than ever yet musicians are struggling worse than ever.)

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Either way, the numbers don’t lie in the RIAA’s chart. The recording industry had a huge revenue problem in the ‘00s.

So if Internet Archive and other libraries are devastating publishing by lending books, there’s a chart to show that too, right?

No. There is no chart to show the same economic harm to publishing from what @internetarchive or any other library does, not even from piracy.

So, we charted it ourselves using ten years of data from Association of American Publishers

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Publishing profits are better than they were 10 years ago, all the time that Internet Archive has been doing its thing—loaning the books it owns.

And yet Big Publishing is pouring money into suing the Archive, saying that they’ve been economically devastated?

We don’t see it.

What publishing wins from the Archive, if they win (and they shouldn’t), is $$$ straight into the pockets of lawyers and lobbyists, not .

Ask us how we know?

We made a third chart.

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While the tens of billions publishing is making has been at historic highs over the past several years, median author incomes, which frankly were always pathetic, have gone down over 50% since 2007.

This massive dip on the chart of author incomes (thank you for the data!) looks an awful lot like the plunge that record labels took when, their words not ours, someone was “stealing” from them.

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It seems unfair that as profits remain steady or grow, publishers are paying authors less than ever.

While suing to shut down the digital libraries we need the most in this era of book bans and censorship.

Who’s the real "Napster"?

If you love the Internet Archive like we do, show your support by heading to https://BattleForLibraries.com and by telling big publishers to leave ’ rights alone and start paying authors + publishing staffs appropriately!

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Particularly gutting is when this excellent piece talks about elementary or middle school students who might recognize their sexuality for the first time, search for resources, and only see hate. 💔

These schools and their content filters are failing kids.

https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites

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BREAKING: 29 orgs, from to , are calling for a Congressional investigation into surveillance of mutual aid activists and the use of PayPal data to charge ’s bail fund with money laundering. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-04-03-mutual-aid-organizations-call-for-congressional-investigation-into-financial-surveillance-of-stop-cop-city-activists-and-atlanta-solidarity-fund/

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After a horrific militarized raid, 3 Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers are charged for reimbursing a garden hose & a stick of glue. The ASF is a prominent in a historic tradition that dates back 100+ years and was an essential force in the 1960s movement. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/cop-city-tortuguita-atlanta-bail-fund-arrest-horror.html

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All mutual aid efforts are intertwined, which is why such a diverse group is speaking out to demand a congressional investigation into FinTech’s financial surveillance-to-law-enforcement pipeline and how it’s being abused in .

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Global signatories include Shareable; Cleveland Pandemic Response; funds like Plan C and Jane’s Due Process; Berlin Collective Action; InterReligious Task Force on Central America; and orgs Louisiana Just Recovery Network and Common Humanity Collective.

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The letter reads in part: “This is a chilling illustration of the threat that the last 20 years of rampant financial surveillance poses to mutual aid organizations across the country—allowing every moment of connection…to become a weapon for bad-faith actors."

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Mutual aid organizations such as bail and abortion funds rely on risky solutions like both for donations and to get money into the hands of those in need quickly, as there is no preserving alternative that is easy for everyday recipients to use.

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The existence of mutual aid funds themselves is also under attack—especially in #Georgia. Activists deserve to aid their communities in safety and #privacy, which is why ❤️Fight and #ColorOfChange worked together to organize this letter. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/protecting-solidarity-countering-attacks-on-mutual-aid-funds/

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"We need end-to-end for our financial lives, and Congress investigating the escalating abuses of intimate financial data in Atlanta is an important step toward accountability and change.” - ❤️Fight's @liaholland

fight, to random
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BREAKING: 28 consumer rights, press freedom, reproductive justice, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ organizations are calling on the FTC to launch a Do Not Call Registry for Data Brokers.

It’s time to get our loved ones’ addresses off the internet, people.

https://www.donotdox.com/

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