Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 31, 2022 at 2:26 PM

Last email of the year

  John - It’s the last day of 2022, so I’ll cut to the chase: we’re $20,000 short of hitting our year-end fundraising goal. Can you chip in right now to make sure we can keep fighting censorship, surveillance, and Big Tech monopolies in 2023? DONATE NOW …

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  The ❤️ Fight Team · [email protected]

December 30, 2022 at 3:23 PM

So short

I’m going to keep this super short   Hi John - I’m going to keep this super short: if you care about protecting your rights in the digital age, please make a donation in any amount to support creative, strategic campaigns in 2023. DONATE NOW Lots of l…

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  ♥️Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 29, 2022 at 5:45 PM

Fighting For

  John—You have the power to fuel fights for Internet access, free speech, and technology that’s a force for good. DONATE AND JOIN THE FIGHT Donate today to fight with us for the digital future you deserve. ♥️ Fight for the Future, PO …

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 27, 2022 at 4:14 PM

We demand direct messaging that’s truly private

Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to access your DMs on Twitter.   John, The last few months of chaos at Twitter has reminded us of a disturbing reality: the largest social media platforms in the world are bought, sold and controlled by uber-wealthy individuals…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 20, 2022 at 4:38 PM

Behind

  John, The ♥️Fight team has been getting ready for 2023, and we’ve got plans to run campaigns against surveillance tech, to support the spread of information and free expression online, and to ensure everyone has access to affordable Internet. But we’re …

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 15, 2022 at 9:51 PM

Keep fighting for net neutrality

  John, We know that you care about net neutrality, and wanted to share how your actions and support have made real victories possible. In 2022, you helped fight industry opposition to Gigi Sohn’s nomination to the FCC. We’ve called for her confirmation ove…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 13, 2022 at 8:04 PM

Libraries & diverse authors under threat—from lobbyists!

Calling all book lovers! Make Big Publishing stand up for libraries instead of grinching away their rights on digital books   Hey John — if you’re a fan of public libraries, you’ve gotta sign this. Straight up, mega-publishers and their lobbyists are being…

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  Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 9, 2022 at 4:27 PM

Shipping Deadline: 👕 Fresh merch

We've added new items to our store   Quick note—if you want to give any Fight for the Future merch as a holiday gift, you need to order by this Sunday, December 11. Check out our new pieces and support the fight for your rights in the digital age! Hi! We…

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 8, 2022 at 4:45 PM

kill this censorship bill

We have a tiny window to stop a censorship bill from sailing through Congress   John, URGENT: Congress is trying to sneak through S. 3663, a dangerous censorship bill that will remove tons of legitimate content from the web and force platforms to spy on ki…

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 5, 2022 at 7:33 PM

URGENT: Censorship and Surveillance Bill

  John, URGENT: Congress is trying to sneak through S. 3663, a dangerous “protect the children” bill that will make the Internet less safe and expand censorship and surveillance as part of the “must-pass” spending package. We’re fighting back, but we need…

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  Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 1, 2022 at 8:58 PM

👕 Fresh merch

We've added new items to our store   Hi! We’ve added some new merch to our Fight for the Future store and wanted to make sure you saw. We’ve designed new shirts, tote bags, posters, and a cute winter pom pom hat. Whether you’re buying for yourself or as a…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM

Quick reminder

  Hey there—Just in case our email didn’t catch your attention yesterday (I know your inbox might have been active for Giving Tuesday 😉), I wanted to send a quick reminder to make your end-of-year donation to Fight for the Future. These next few weeks of t…

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  Terri, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 29, 2022 at 3:08 PM

🚀 Fight into 2023

  Hi John, It’s Giving Tuesday, and we know you’ll get a lot of emails today, but please hear us out. We’re determined to rein in the monopoly abuses of Big Tech—and these next few weeks are really do-or-die for these efforts. The “lame duck” Congress is p…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 23, 2022 at 1:23 PM

Tell DC City Council to ban discriminatory AI

1 min action: Support the Stop Discrimination by Algorithms Act   John, The DC City Council is considering a bill that would ban the use of discriminatory AI in key areas like housing, healthcare, and employment, and they need to hear from DC residents rig…

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 22, 2022 at 6:21 PM

Support Fight this Giving Tuesday

Support a future where tech is a tool for expression and freedom, not oppression.   Hi John, We’re wishing you a nice holiday week with friends and family. Just dropping a quick note to Save the Date: Giving Tuesday, the nationwide giving day, is this comin…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 21, 2022 at 7:05 PM

2 questions

Can you take one minute and answer two quick questions about what issues are most important to you?   Hey John, Can you take one minute and answer two quick questions about what issues are most important to you? (I promise, it’s really that short) FILL …

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 17, 2022 at 10:13 PM

DEADLINE APPROACHING: 3 days left

The deadline to submit a comment to the FTC is November 21. Take action now.   John, The deadline to submit your comment to the FTC on surveillance and data security is this Monday, November 21. You don’t want to miss this chance. Tell the FTC to stop Big …

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  Sarah, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 16, 2022 at 3:46 PM

Re: Defend internet freedom in 2023

Here's how you can support the fight for internet freedom in 2023   Hey John, Last week we wrote to you about Fight’s post-election plans. The biggest takeaway is that when it comes to passing anything in Congress, we’re by no means cleared for any easy win…

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  Sarah, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 10, 2022 at 11:48 PM

Defend internet freedom in 2023

  Hi John, We’ll be up front. We’re reaching out today to ask you to donate: Will you support Fight for the Future in 2023? Here’s why your support is so critical: Although the dust is still settling from the midterms, one thing is certain: the stakes of …

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 9, 2022 at 8:10 PM

Tomorrow: Join our post-election debrief

Hear from experts at Planned Parenthood, EFF, MediaJustice and more during our midterm election roundup webinar John, We're hosting a post-election recap. Want to join us? Tomorrow at 4:30 EST, grab a seltzer, or something stronger, and join me and our brilliant friends from EFF…

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 7, 2022 at 10:02 PM

It’s Musk’s Twitterverse, we’re just living in it now

We need to start reckoning with what it means to build our digital lives on platforms owned by others, whether individuals or multinational corporations. Hi, it’s Evan from Fight for the Future. I wanted to share this piece I wrote for TIME Magazine about Elon Musk’s takeover o…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

November 2, 2022 at 3:54 PM

Telecom giants “bait and switch”

NEWSFLASH: Telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T continue to abuse their power   Hi John, NEWSFLASH: Telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T continue to abuse their power, bullying customers and denying them proper service. Here’s the scoop. Just ov…

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  Caitlin at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 27, 2022 at 8:59 PM

Re: Uber is exploiting you in a whole new way

Uber is selling your location to advertisers. Help us fight this slimy data abuse   Hey John, Yesterday, we told you about Uber’s new ad program that’s selling your real-time location directly to advertisers.1 Now, our petition to stop this slimy data abus…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

October 26, 2022 at 5:54 PM

Uber is exploiting you in a whole new way

Überhell—Uber has found a new way to make money off of you Hi John, NEW: Uber will sell your sensitive personal data to—you guessed it—advertisers. But this isn’t just any ad scheme. Uber is cashing in on your realtime location. Vice summed it up perfectly: “What could possibly…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

October 19, 2022 at 5:55 PM

BREAKING: FTC Deadline Extension

You can influence how companies collect and use your personal data. Hi John, BREAKING: The FTC has extended the deadline for public feedback on how companies use dangerous surveillance tech and abuse your personal information.[1] Over the next month, we’re doubling our efforts t…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

October 13, 2022 at 4:03 PM

Home Surveillance is Spooky

Support campaigns to rein in creepy tech. Hi John, Wirecutter recently published a piece that promotes using home surveillance tech to monitor trick-or-treaters or scare your kids for Halloween amusement.[1] Surveillance is spooky, and it shouldn’t be normalized by calling it “j…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 7, 2022 at 11:22 PM

⏳ Time’s running out: send a comment to the FTC now

Help the FTC make a new rule & stop corporate surveillance.   John, If you haven’t heard yet, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began a rulemaking process in August that could change how Facebook, Google and other tech companies collect, use and share…

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  Terri at Fight via ActionNetwork.org · [email protected]

October 4, 2022 at 5:23 PM

There’s still hope for Net Neutrality

Everyone deserves equitable and affordable internet access. Hi John, Congress still hasn’t confirmed net neutrality champ Gigi Sohn to the FCC! And that confirmation has been the key hope to reinstate net neutrality after Trump’s former FCC head, Ajit Pai, gutted the rules that…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 29, 2022 at 2:29 PM

Neil Gaiman, Alok Menon, & more are speaking up for libraries

From Daniel Ellsberg to Medea Benjamin, Chuck Wendig to Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, authors are speaking up for libraries' digital rights! John— This is a really cool day at ❤️Fight. We’ve been quietly working for months, organizing authors to speak out for librari…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 21, 2022 at 6:51 PM

Join ❤️Fight and the ACLU in saying No Spy Cash!!

This isn’t about crypto. The US government might make its own digital cash—and if they do it must be free of surveillance backdoors!   Hi John At the order of President Biden,1 the US government is considering the creation of its own digital dollar, and it…

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  Ayele, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 16, 2022 at 12:30 PM

Ring isn’t family-friendly

Red Alert! New reality tv series uses Ring surveillance footage. John, Setting a dangerous precedent in normalizing surveillance, Amazon-owned MGM Studios is putting together a new reality tv show. This show is all about airing footage from people’s Ring cameras for entertainmen…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 12, 2022 at 11:42 PM

The time to fight against corporate surveillance is NOW

The FTC has launched rulemaking to stop corporate surveillance. Send your comments now. Hi John, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced [1] that it is launching a rulemaking process to address commercial surveillance and data security issues. Groups like ❤️Fight h…

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  Sarah at Fight · [email protected]

September 9, 2022 at 6:31 PM

We’re not quite there yet. Can you help?

Last call on our summer fundraising drive—will you join us as a sustaining donor?   Hi John, We’re nearing the end of our summer sustaining donor drive. We'll come right out and say it: we haven't quite reached our goal. So we’d like to make one more requ…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

September 6, 2022 at 8:10 PM

If this isn’t a clue that we’re doing the right thing...

You support the fight for human (digital) rights! Our end-of-summer-10th-anniversary sustaining donor drive is here.   Join us at $25 a month and you’ll receive our special edition 10th anniversary “We Can Stop Giants” T-Shirt→ Hi John, BREAKING: Big Te…

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  The Team at Fight · [email protected]

August 30, 2022 at 3:55 PM

*You* make a difference to Fight ❤️

Join us at $25 a month and you’ll receive our special edition 10th anniversary “We Can Stop Giants” T-Shirt→   Join us at $25 a month and you’ll receive our special edition 10th anniversary “We Can Stop Giants” T-Shirt→ Hi John, We’re about halfway throu…

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  Anna at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 29, 2022 at 5:27 PM

Free speech keeps people safe

States are trying to censor abortion information. Help us fight these overbroad attacks on free speech John, Anti-abortion extremists want to dismantle online free speech. So today, we’re launching a campaign to stop their censorship offensive in its tracks. Act now: stop anti-…

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  Evan & Sarah · [email protected]

August 27, 2022 at 8:44 PM

We need your help

Can you help us get to 1,000 members? Become a Fight sustaining donor and/or forward this to your friends who care about human rights-centered tech.   Join us at $25 a month and you’ll receive our special edition 10th anniversary “We Can Stop Giants” T-Shirt→ …

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

August 25, 2022 at 6:31 PM

Become a Fight Sustaining Donor

You support the fight for human (digital) rights! Our end-of-summer-10th-anniversary sustaining donor drive is here.   Join us at $25 a month and you’ll receive our special edition 10th anniversary “We Can Stop Giants” T-Shirt→ Hi John, Earlier this year, …

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 24, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Tell PayPal: Stop discriminating against Palestinians

Over 20,000 people have signed a petition demanding PayPal stop discriminating against Palestinians. Add your name now. John, PayPal, one of most popular money transfer services in the world, is shamelessly discriminating against Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, and …

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  Anna at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Help fight student censorship in Florida

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is demanding students and staff take a “viewpoint diversity” survey. Tell Florida to repeal this invasive law John, It's back to school season, and it's time to face student censorship head-on. In 2021, Governor DeSantis signed a bill requiring all …

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 3, 2022 at 8:07 PM

Are you in to reinstate net neutrality?

Let’s restore net neutrality! Here’s the latest. John, There’s good news and there’s bad news. We’ll start with the bad news. Nearly two years into the Biden administration, Gigi Sohn still hasn’t been confirmed to the FCC. In 2017, Trump’s head of the FCC, former Verizon law…

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 19, 2022 at 1:00 PM

GOOD NEWS on net neutrality

BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that net neutrality champions in the House and Senate are preparing to introduce a bill to overturn Ajit Pai’s disastrous repeal of Title II. [1] Now that the news is out, it’s only a matter of hours before the telecom lobby swarms Washingto…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 1, 2022 at 1:57 PM

Google is fueling abortion criminalization

We can’t let Google trade abortion seekers’ safety for profit. Sign the letter demanding the company stop data-fueling abortion criminalization. John, Following the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe, our work to hold tech companies accountable for their complicity in human rights…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 27, 2022 at 9:00 PM

Join our event tomorrow on how we might regulate web3?

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on regulation and web3. Join us! John, Our next web3 x human rights salon is coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 10am PT/1pm ET. This salon brings together a stellar line up discussing how we mig…

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  Leila at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 21, 2022 at 6:21 PM

Happy Summer — let’s take down Big Tech

We're making waves. Tweet at Congress to help us rein in Big Tech. Happy Summer John! Summer is officially here! We're going to get our puns out quickly: Celebrate by helping us rein in Big Tech so that we can surf the web without monopolies controlling the waves. 🌊🌊🌊 The cloc…

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  Rein in Big Tech · [email protected]

June 18, 2022 at 5:35 PM

The longer they wait...

We can’t let this opportunity to rein in Big Tech slip away from us. John, I’ll be quick. Lawmakers are dragging their feet to vote on bills that would rein in Big Tech. The longer they wait, the more time (and $$$, $36 million+) Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple and their lobb…

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  Rein in Big Tech · [email protected]

June 15, 2022 at 6:30 PM

You can stop them!

#antitrustsummer is on. Don’t let Big Tech and lawmakers ruin it. John, Believe it or not, summer’s officially upon us in just a few days. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised he’d put antitrust legislation to a vote in June. [1] But there’s still no date. Why not? We …

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 13, 2022 at 4:06 PM

WATCH: John Oliver calls out Big Tech monopolies

John, Last night, John Oliver spotlighted the fight to pass Big Tech antitrust legislation on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. You can watch the segment and take action here John lays out the stakes and shows why it’s CRITICAL we get this done now: “There are two bills be…

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  Evan at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 9, 2022 at 8:09 PM

We're going all in on antitrust

No hyperbole: this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to regulate Big Tech. Help us disrupt their lobbyist machine. John, In the next two weeks, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rein in Big Tech and mend our democracy. Congress is planning to vote on a major antitrust package…

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 8, 2022 at 8:17 PM

Once in a lifetime opportunity to rein in Big Tech. Let’s make this happen.

The chance to curb Big Tech is HERE. We have to act now. John, Please take a moment to read this short email. To say there is a lot going on in the world is the understatement of the century, but right now Congress is considering two bills that could stop the worst abuses of Bi…

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