1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

The Epstein Class is trying to OUTLAW the free internet! The bi-partisan elite, both in congress and through their corrosive market influences, are currently engaging in a campaign to restrict our internet freedoms. To put it simply, they are trying to privatize the Patriot Act and in doing so, exert more control over what is allowed to be discussed and who is allowed to participate in those discussions. We’ve gone from calls to regulate social media as a public utility to calls to abolish the democratic elements of social media entirely. In the last week alone we have seen several social media platforms comply in advance by cracking down on your free speech and mandating you upload your face and ID to ICE. We have to fight back to save the internet! Battlefronts: * The Effort to Repeal Section 230 * KOSA and other ID age verification laws around the world * Platforms partnering with vendors like Persona to scrape Age Verification data to give to DHS/ICE and advertisers * State Laws requiring ID to view porn websites * Banning End-to-End encryption Impact: Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act protects online platforms from criminal and/or civil liability for all user generated content that does not violate federal law. Its repeal, as currently being championed by individuals like @SenatorDurbin, @amyklobuchar, and many others, would immediately lead to all social media sites mass banning users and mass removing any content of their platform that they deem as risky. It would make social media have to act like Cable TV where all aired content would need to be vetted for legal liability. Calls to boycott Israel would be labeled as anti semitism and thus likely blocked outright. KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) and other age verification laws passed by various states, the UK, Australia, and Brazil would require everyone to upload their government ID to each website that contains anything the government or market deems to be 18+. This includes the obvious, but more insidiously it also refers to political speech. All those posts about ICE murdering American citizens would count. Accountability for any atrocity would become impossible. Worst of all, platforms are pre-capitulating to these laws against their interests as we have seen Discord recently attempt to do. Apple also announced it is going to require ID to download 18+ applications through the App Store. California today announced a new law that would require age verification at the operating system level. West Virginia is suing Apple over end-to-end encryption. They claim this is to protect children but in reality it's to make it so the surveillance capabilities only the NSA could pull off would be possible by even your local police department. This sounds too extreme or hyperbolic to be true, but it is! Take a stand against this gross and aggressive over reach of power.