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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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 7, 2022 at 3:39 PM

These Senators say Big Tech is more important than you

A small faction of Senate Democrats may be betraying you for Big Tech. John, A small faction of Senate Democrats may be betraying you for Big Tech.1 As groundbreaking antitrust legislation moves forward, a group of Senators are trying to keep the bills from getting a vote. They…

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  Terri, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 4, 2022 at 3:18 PM

⚠️ $22 to match their $22 million

A Big Tech lobbying group is spending $22 million on ads to convince you antitrust action is bad. John Last week, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a corporate Big Tech lobbying group, dropped $22 million on ads to oppose modest antitrust legislation aimed a…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 3, 2022 at 7:06 PM

Why does Schumer hate net neutrality?

⌛Time is running out to win back net neutrality. John, At this very moment, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is in a 2-2 deadlock. There's no reason for this. We have a highly qualified nominee, but Senator Schumer hasn't brought her confirmation for a vote. We can’t…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 25, 2022 at 8:22 PM

Free event tomorrow: Privacy in the next gen internet

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on privacy in the next generation of the Internet. Join us! John, Our next web3 x human rights salon is coming up tomorrow, Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 10am PT/1pm ET. This salon brings together representati…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

May 9, 2022 at 4:01 PM

IYKYK: Nomi’s great escape, Whatever It Takes, and Fight flags

Last chance for the ❤️ Fight auction Hi John, Only one day left to bid on Nomi’s bike from Sense8, Tom Morello’s signed book, or commemorative Fight for the Future flags. Current bids are at $100 to $1,100—can you add another $50 to these for digital rights? Your winning bid dir…

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  Terri at Fight · [email protected]

May 3, 2022 at 8:07 PM

Auction for digital rights, new merch, and a #win

10th Anniversary Updates @ ❤️ Fight Hi John, We know there's a lot going on these days and the news isn't always good. But a few updates in the last couple weeks have kept us upbeat heading into May. We hope they bring you a little hope or joy too.   Auction for Fight for the Fu…

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  Evan at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 27, 2022 at 2:42 PM

My thoughts on Musk

Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase shows that it’s way past time for strong antitrust laws. John, By now, you’ve probably heard that billionaire Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. There are many voices on all sides of this story, and one common refrain on Twitter is “if you don’t like i…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 25, 2022 at 3:12 PM

Time’s running out to block this awful copyright bill

Our push against online censorship filters is gaining major steam, and we’re delivering our petition TODAY. Can you help us get the message out? Hiya John, Today’s the day! Congress just got back from Easter recess and we’re going to overwhelm their desks with opposition to the …

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 20, 2022 at 8:52 PM

Free Event Invite: Anti-colonial perspectives in building the next gen internet

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on how to equitably collaborate with traditionally marginalized communities. Join us! John, Our next web3 x human rights salon is coming up on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. This salon, prese…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 19, 2022 at 7:32 PM

Stop the use of AI for emotion tracking

Zoom is testing AI software that claims to track and analyze emotions. Mining users for emotional data points is not a good move for a responsible business. Hi John, Last week, a piece in Protocol broke the news that Zoom is testing AI software that claims to analyze people’s em…

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