| Website | https://liaholland.com |
| Authors for Libraries | https://www.fightforthefuture.org/Authors-For-Libraries |
| Surveillance TF out of libraries | https://www.fastcompany.com/90773185/a-major-publishing-lawsuit-would-cement-surveillance-into-the-future-of-libraries |
| Leave privacy software TF alone | https://www.lawfareblog.com/tornado-cash-sanctions-are-unduly-creative-first-amendment |
I spoke with FFDW on why we need a decentralized, anti-surveillance web, and on our Stop Copaganda project.
"For many people, the harms and threats of technology don’t become real until you’re able to point to a real scenario that pulls at their heartstrings."
Help save my job at @fight ?
Tons of progressives voted for this last time.
Easy script at https://fftf.link/no9495
We need alternatives that protect readers yesterday. We need Signal for books.
How do we get there? We need a movement in publishing. Y'all need to do it. Authors. Editors. Agents. Booksellers. Librarians. Book-Lovers. Just like right to repair, we need a right to read the truth and feel safe doing it.
Start by getting up to speed on what's been done in your name. https://www.battleforlibraries.com/congress/
If digital books aren't locked behind third party big tech licensing apps, all of us can preserve the truth.
Libraries can choose whether or not to surveil readers, whether or not to retain reading histories by default.
Readers can choose surveillance-free reading apps, and trust their books haven't been silently edited in the night.
There's one thing that prevents wholesale purging of history from all the digital books we're about to rely on for the actual historical truth, and that's the ability to own the files.
Both for individuals and for libraries.
We need a new movement for reader privacy, and for the integrity of books. I mean, they're literally purging Martin Luther King from the National Archives under BIDEN.
Are they invisibly purging racial justice from existing digital books already? We can't know. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/national-archives-history-colleen-shogan-f8512bc3
Right now, the answer is yes.
My org @fight GLAAD, Color of Change, and 20+ other major civil society and racial justice orgs called it almost a year ago, right here: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/congress/
Close this thread if you don't stop and read that letter now.
Especially digital books, especially in communities where books on issues like racial justice, abortion, and queer identity are banned.
But does reading digital books create a honeypot of "enemies" for the new fascist regime?
And can digital books be edited (read: censored) without our even knowing?
