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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 28

    BREAKING: EFF has filed a lawsuit asking the federal court to declare FOSTA unconstitutional.

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  2. 47 minutes ago

    Click here. *To see whether or not your browser fingerprint is unique, and learn what you can do about it.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Increasing competition will not fix all the problems with online platforms—but it is one of the few strategies that has the promise of opening up space for innovation.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    FOSTA is "casting great uncertainty" on whether health and human rights advocacy for sex workers is illegal, says EFF's . And that seems "completely purposeful by Congress."

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Let's go crazy: To celebrate the end of a case that's been in court for over a decade, we turned the famous 29-second clip of the baby dancing to music by Prince into a ten hour video.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    "The government would love to get access...to track people and match families who are living undocumented inside the United States," says EFF Senior Staff Attorney about the dark side of potential plans to use DNA data to reunite families.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Activists: We’re hiring! Join a workplace with: ✅ Excellent benefits, including student loan and housing cost assistance ✅ A diverse, supportive, and empowering environment ✅ Regular educational workshops and activities ✅ Dogs, kittens, and robots

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  8. Jun 29

    It's 's birthday, and they will donate $1 to EFF for each .xyz domain renewed or registered in June. Do you—or a friend—need a new domain or a domain renewed? This is a good time to do it!

    2 replies 19 retweets 46 likes
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  9. Jun 29

    Want to read more about our FOSTA challenge? We've posted all of the preliminary injunction papers, including declarations from & Dr. Alix Lutnick on our Woodhull Freedom Foundation et al v. US case page

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  10. Jun 29

    If there were real alternatives to the big tech giants, users could vote with their feet by leaving a platform or service that isn’t working for them. That freedom to choose is vital to free speech, privacy, and innovation.

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  11. Jun 29

    Right now, faulty facial recognition systems used by law enforcement could “implicate people for crimes they didn’t commit and shift the burden to innocent defendants to show they are not who the system says they are,” says EFF’s Jen Lynch.

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  12. Jun 29

    Californians: tell your assemblymember to restore to

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  13. Jun 29

    Our Stupid Patent of the Month comes from an alleged cult leader who managed to patent "improving performance" on a treadmill.

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  14. Jun 29

    Our lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against FOSTA——vehemently opposes sex trafficking. Unfortunately, their harm reduction efforts could, under the law, be seen as "facilitating prostitution."

    . is so proud to be the lead plaintiff in Woodhull v. Sessions
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  15. Jun 29

    Consumer Reports found various, significant issues with Facebook's privacy settings—months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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  16. Jun 29

    FOSTA's expansions of federal criminal law are fraught with vague and ambiguous terms that create great uncertainty about what online speech is illegal, including speech by those vehemently opposed to sex trafficking

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  17. Jun 29

    When a YouTube clip with a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed by Universal back in 2007, even we would not have predicted it would result in a decade-long court battle. Congratulations to our client, Stephanie Lenz.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    Wondering what you can do to help stop the passage of and in the EU? EFF's and Member of Parliament explain:

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  19. Jun 29

    The UK's Stephen Fry has some rather strong words to say about : Tell your MEP to vote against it next week!

    threatens EU creators, leaving us vulnerable to censorship in copyright's name. Don't believe the creepy pretence that it's there to protect © holders. It's about putting power in the hands of media corporations. We can stop it! Contact your MEP
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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 28

    FOSTA is the most comprehensive censorship of Internet speech in America in the last 20 years. We are asking the court to block enforcement of it.

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  21. Jun 28

    Last but not least thanks to our amazing sponsors! We couldn't have nights like this without you.

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