John,

Everywhere we look, free speech and the right to protest are under attack. The Trump administration is suing journalists for unfavorable reporting,¹ attacking companies with DEI programs,² and trying to deport visa and green card-holders en masse for speaking out against genocide.³ Now more than ever, people need places online to gather and organize—but a critical law that protects these spaces is under attack.

Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham want to “sunset” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that protects online free speech and the Internet as we know it.⁴ We need your help to stop them.

SAVE SECTION 230

Without Section 230, platforms that engage in any moderation at all can be held legally liable for any piece of content posted by their users. At first glance, this might look like a good way to hold Big Tech accountable and address issues like hate speech and misinformation. But in practice, it’d make platforms choose between ducking lawsuits by pre-censoring controversial content or abandoning moderation altogether. The result? An unrecognizable Internet dominated by hyper controlled streams of pre-packaged content on one end and a Wild West of unmoderated slop on the other.

Smaller, decentralized platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, Signal, and Reddit would likely be tanked by lawsuits, while Big Tech companies like Meta, Google, and X survive, solidifying their monopolies. There would be no more organizing protests like Tesla Takedown online,⁵ no more posting about abortion resources or trans healthcare,⁶ no more independent media… simply put: no Section 230, no free speech online, no Internet.

Will you write your reps today and urge them to protect Section 230?

TELL CONGRESS: HANDS OFF SECTION 230

We’ve stopped terrible bills like this before. Last year, your calls and messages stopped the disastrous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) from passing at the last minute.⁷ We’ve successfully blocked efforts to weaken or kill Section 230 before, too. We need that energy tenfold now to protect the Internet as we know it.

With the way things are going, there’s no coming back from this. If these lawmakers succeed in undermining the foundation of free speech online, it could permanently hamstring our ability to organize against Trump, his Big Tech cronies, and the rising tide of fascism. We can’t afford to give up the tools we need to organize and win.

Thanks for taking action, John.

In solidarity,

Alex and the team at ❤️Fight

P.S. Sending a letter is an easy first step, but this fight doesn’t end here. Join our urgent actions Signal chat to stay updated,⁸ and keep an eye out for more ways to take action.

Footnotes:

1. The Fire: https://www.thefire.org/news/fires-defense-pollster-j-ann-selzer-against-donald-trumps-lawsuit-first-amendment-101

2. Free Press: https://www.freepress.net/news/fcc-chairman-brendan-carrs-attacks-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-are-racist-sexist-and

3. CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-protesters-visas-green-cards-trump-ice-detentions-free-speech/

4. The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/634189/section-230-repeal-graham-durbin

5. 60 Tesla Takedown Organizers on Section 230: “Democrats, don’t kill the tools we need to organize!” https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-04-17-60-tesla-takedown-organizers-on-section-230-democrats-dont-kill-the-tools-we-need-to-organize/

6. STATEMENT: Congress must pause all Section 230 legislation until the impacts on abortion and trans healthcare are assessed: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-03-08-statement-congress-must-pause-all-section-230-legislation-until-the-impacts-on-abortion-and-trans-healthcare-are-assessed/
7. Stop KOSA: https://www.stopkosa.com/