Hey John,

Here we go again.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has just reintroduced a bill in the Senate¹ and the House² to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, aka the Internet’s First Amendment,³ by the end of 2026.

As Fight’s Lia Holland put it: “If this bill passes, 2026 will be the year that online protest movements die.”⁴ Our free expression team is itching to hit the ground running in the new year to block this bill and all other attempts at censoring online protest at such a critical time. With your support, we’ve stopped the race to the bottom on Section 230 before, and we’ll do it again.

The only thing getting in our way is the never ending fundraising work it takes to fuel our activism on this critical issue. Will you make a donation today to fund our work defending free speech online and stop censorship-loving lawmakers from tanking online protest in 2026?

FUEL THE FIGHT

As 60 Tesla Takedown activists warned⁵ earlier this year: without Section 230, movement organizing will be censored. Groups like Indivisible, No Kings, 50501, or ICE out of Home Depot use social media to get out information, organize rallies, share resources, and connect with each other. If we lose Section 230, there will be a purge of Bluesky accounts, Facebook groups, and most of the other tools organizers use online, too. What’s more, losing Section 230 will destroy abortion speech⁶ online, and lifesaving LGBTQ+ resources as well.⁷

Activists have been warning for years that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. Without it, tech billionaires will be able to sue away any online video, protest flier, or other speech they don’t like, and tech billionaires will also proactively censor speech on their platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok so that they don’t get sued.⁸

Democrats like to say that they are trying to sunset Section 230 as a way to rein in Big Tech, when really the loss of this law will give tech billionaires the right to silence us all. If they really wanted to rein in Big Tech, lawmakers would pass robust federal data privacy and antitrust legislation so that people would be protected online, and have real choices beyond the billionaires’ club.

There’s so much we could (and should) be throwing down on in the new year. But this has to be one of our top priorities. Without Section 230, Fight and other groups like us couldn’t do half the organizing work we do online to fight for your privacy and digital rights. So please, if you can, support this urgent work.

DONATE NOW

Any donation—especially a monthly gift of any size—makes a huge difference for our team. Thanks for your support, John. If you haven’t already, make sure to hound your lawmakers³ about these terrible bills, too. We’ll keep you updated as things progress.

With hope,

Alex and the team at Fight for the Future

Footnotes:

1. Senate Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3546

2. House Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6746/text

3. What is Section 230: https://www.whatissection230.org/

4. Statement: With 230 repeal bill, Dems target 2026 as year online protest organizing and reproductive healthcare info dies: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12-18-statement-2026-year-online-protest-dies/

5. The Hill: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5253431-tesla-takedown-organizers-call-on-democrats-to-shield-section-230/

6. Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/section-230-is-a-last-line-of-defense-for-abortion-speech-online/

7. LGBT Tech: https://www.lgbttech.org/post/the-implications-of-weakening-section-230-on-the-lgbtq-community-in-a-post-roe-world

8. The Forge: https://forgeorganizing.org/article/how-the-first-amendment-of-the-internet-underpins-modern-activist-movements/