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Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills? (US focused) (wedistribute.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here's how EFF desribes the situation in You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills

"Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress.We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. I’m asking you to join us, ACLU, Fight for the Future, and other digital rights defenders in a week of action to protect the internet."

Can the fediverse help? The fediverse has some potential advantages for activism on topics like privacy, digital rights, and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. So it’s worth experimenting, and the July 20-28 week of action on Bad Internet Bills is a great opportunity – to learn, and hopefully to have an impact as well.

Here's four easy ways to help:

  1. Upvote and boost posts in [email protected] -- and cross-post them to other communities and magazines where they're on-topic
  2. On Mastodon, boost posts on the #BadInternetBills and #KOSA hashtags
  3. Get the word out on other social networks too
  4. If you live in the US, contact your legislators using Fight for the Future’s https://www.badinternetbills.com/
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This came to a logical problem of naming a coalition by several group names' initials. And a very loose one at that. I felt the same about the flag updates.

It is a conclusion to what they stand for and why they are created – to get united under one banner to be seen – but at the same time it counters that in how it is disunited in these exact banners, also to be seen and recognized but individually. And a rainbow flag, iirc, wasn't meant to mean something by each colour in it, lol.

I feel like switching to the name and a flag that don't include that self-expansion and would just stay the same would be better – but then I catch myself realizing it is nothing other than creating another acronym\flag and asking to be argued by those who promoted these expansion for I deny their effort to gain visibility.

Shit's a mess.