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URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

(202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

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maydillydally · 1 year

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I Posted More!

There are now 5 chapters of my fic. It’s slowly coming together but this latest chapter is my fav so far. Eddie is also finally in it, so I think that’s probably a big part in that opinion. Chapter 5 linked below:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41470122/chapters/108273495

I’m not sure if y’all want to know this info or not, but I’m tagging you regardless... @hippielady09 , @epiclazershark , @natmc04 , @misha-misha

I’ve also got a blueprint/layout of the building in this chapter, similar to what I did for the Buckley house. Let me know if I should post it!

#I know I haven't been on here in forever #I've been busy #Sorry that this fic is coming together so slowly #I promise that this chapter is worth it #<3

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maydillydally · 2 years

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Hey um, I thought I’d share my blueprint of the Buckley house in honor of actually posting. It helped me visualize when writing.

Excuse my handwriting. And no, no I don’t really know why I gave them an office space. I suppose I imagine Janine as a sort of work-from-home gal in my head and that’s her workspace.

Steve Harrington is facing some harsh realities from his ‘A+ parents’. He finds his world turned upside down in a rough way but regardless, it’s for the better. In his newly-changed life, he finds he doesn’t want to forget what got him to his “better life”. One suggestion later and he finds himself in a tattoo parlor meeting a handsome tattoo artist that he instantly is enraptured by… || A Modern-Tattoo-Parlor AU, Steddie fic provided by yours truly. ||

PLEASE HEED THE TWs and tags! Thanks! Please be safe reading. Tags are there for a reason!

I thought I’d tag @hippielady09 @misha-misha since I think you guys would want to know I posted. I may need to edit this post if it turns out weird. So, sorry if tumblr gives you a notification if I do that.

#reblogging this because they’re connected #Buckley household #from my fanfiction #steve harrington #robin buckley #visualization aid

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Steve Harrington is facing some harsh realities from his 'A+ parents'. He finds his world turned upside down in a rough way but regardless, it's for the better. In his newly-changed life, he finds he doesn't want to forget what got him to his "better life". One suggestion later and he finds himself in a tattoo parlor meeting a handsome tattoo artist that he instantly is enraptured by... || A Modern-Tattoo-Parlor AU, Steddie fic provided by yours truly. ||

PLEASE HEED THE TWs and tags! Thanks! Please be safe reading. Tags are there for a reason!

#my fanfiction #it's finally time #two chapters are posted #i'm so excited #I just can't hide it #stranger things #steddie #steddie fanfiction #a03 fanfic

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maydillydally · 2 years

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reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

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maydillydally · 2 years

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I don’t fully know what’s going on but I’d support AO3’s freeland freewill motto always. AO3 was born for fandom culture. It’s NOT a freaking educational website or something that has to holds a better image to the public.

The public isn’t supposed to see AO3. At all??!!

It’s for the fandoms for god’s sake. It isn’t your troply to show off. Why can’t you just leave us alone.

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maydillydally · 2 years

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Hi. I’ve been a busy bee (at least on my terms) on this fic and I’m low key really excited for ppl to read it. I’m not really sure how to tag/rate it? How do Ao3 authors do this?? This is hard. I don’t want to miss anything triggering. I’m not done, but I’ve got 5 chapters pretty much there. I’d like to start posting them potentially. However, the first part is the one I’m most concerned with being triggering and I want to have warnings on it properly. I need more opinions! Let me know any pointers on Ao3 tagging, if you can. If anyone’s willing to beta read this portion that I’m most concerned about (me presenting what tags/trigger warnings I have so far first so you can decide whether you’d like to read or not) feel free to dm me! It’d help an absolute ton.

#archive of our own #ao3 #fic writing tips #my first fanfic #help lol #possibly looking for a beta reader #for at least one part of the fic #stranger things #it’s stranger things btw #steddie #steddie fanfic #steve harrington #eddie munson #I hope someone sees this #this is a plea for help #no one will probably see this #if you have the time it’s not that long #pls interact with me

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maydillydally · 2 years

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Hi guys. If you can vote in the Ao3 election, make sure to not vote for Tiffany G. If you haven’t heard, this person wants to censor Ao3. Yes, you heard that right. The site created to go against censorship has someone running for the board that wants to censor content.

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maydillydally · 2 years

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There is a candidate named Tiffany G. in the current Ao3 board elections with a pro-censorship position for getting Ao3 unbanned in China. This is ship and kink agnostic: the only way to get Ao3 unbanned in China would be the removal of all explicit queer content to bring it in line with the online censorship policies of the CCP Pre-ban, Chinese writers used Ao3 to host LGBTQ+ and explicit content due to being censored on Chinese websites, and writers of danmei (m/m) stories have been sent to prison in China for publishing queer content.

There are 3 seats, and 5 candidates (including her) so she has an actual chance to get elected. If you’ve contributed $10 in the past year and have eligibility to vote in this election, it is essential that you do so. Please check your e-mail for the ballot and vote for everyone except Tiffany in whichever order you prefer based on their stances.

Important context including how essential it is to vote this time if you want to support Ao3s current policies

Chinese fandoms on Weibo are up in arms against this candidate warning about her intention to bring Ao3 in line with the Chinese censored fanfic sites

Chat transcript of her election interview, including discussion of making Ao3 more publicly appealing, complaints about how it was banned in China, and the suggestion of removing ‘illegal’ content besides underage - which, in China, includes queer and explicit content - and avoidance of clear answers about which content would be censored

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maydillydally · 2 years

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just noticed something… the only time mike has ever been his true self and shown his “nerdy” side to eleven is in season 1 episode 2. he’s showing her his toys and trying to tell her about star wars and dinosaurs and he seems so excited about it. but she doesn’t look interested at all and actually gets up and walks away while he’s still talking

he never really talked about his interests to her again after that. the only time he spoke about presents and got excited was at the end of season 3 when he was telling her about christmas but then he stopped himself and said he probably sounds like a child. he’s embarrassed and tries to act cool around her and he just can’t be himself. it’s really sad if you think about it. even now after years of dating, they don’t even communicate properly and barely know anything about each other. i’ve never seen them give each other gifts of something they enjoy and they don’t share the same interests or hobbies

meanwhile will on the other hand has made so many drawings that mike has kept over the years. he even worked on a beautiful painting of their d&d party which is so meaningful to both of them, and you can see how happy it made mike when he gave it to him. it’s like little mike came out again and you could see how his entire face lit up. mike can only be his true self when he’s with will and he feels so comfortable with him. in fact, they both feel most comfortable with each other and they understand each other better than anyone else. they also make each other feel better for who they are and they don’t have to hide. that’s what makes their relationship so beautiful and genuine

#I don’t usually ship byler but op really be spitting straight facts #byler #mike wheeler #byler analysis #will byers #stranger things #I cannot disagree with this #poor will #not to say el is bad #mikes smile seeing that painting in the van said more than words #lol from mike #‘communication’ but like the SpongeBob ’imagination’#poor el she deserves to explore more than the first dude she laid eyes on after getting out of that lab #my ass ‘my life started seeing you in that forest’#smh man #I said it before but still poor will #i wanna hug him #I’m rambling in the tags once more #I hate that stupid van scene #like nooo don’t cry but I know you have reasons will so just cry on my shoulder not alone in the backseat without mike noticing #only jonathan gets it #thank you for hugging your brother Jonathan Byers #we all wanted to imo #I’ll get off my soapbox now

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maydillydally · 2 years

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Well, I’ve officially done it. I’ve begun writing a steddie fic. I have an outline that’s roughly written and a good portion of the beginning written. I might need a beta, but I might just go with “no beta we die like men” sorta vibes. Especially since it’s my first attempt at fic and I haven’t written fiction in years. Anywho, that’s what I’ve been doing basically for the last two days since my last post.

Also, I just wanna say thanks to @queerticulate for your words of encouragement. It really was the push I needed to actually go for it and start writing my idea down, thank you!!

I’m so sorry if this is weird but I wanted to thank the folks that actually decided to like that post as well. Although you didn’t say anything,that interaction also ended up encouraging me as well. Sooo, thanks: @misha-misha, @hippielady09, @mycrofts-umbrella-in-the-tardis, and @okayishperson. If it truly is weird, again, sorry. Forgive me. I’m all sleepy and my judgement might not be the best rn. :/

#stranger things #steddie #I’m embarking on a journey #I’m not sure if I will be able to finish #no one will probably see this #but if you do I hope you are doing well #thanks for reading if you did #I hope you enjoy your night or day #if anyone wants I still need a hype person #my outline is so much larger than anticipated #oh well #i’m rambling #that is all

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maydillydally · 2 years

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She’s really saying that my lap is free real estate. I thought I’d appreciate this rare occasion. She’s a weirdo and I have more content of her. I might post more eventually.

#i know i know #dead meme but whatever #cat on lap #my cat #her name is Klaire #everyone say hi Klaire #no one will probably see this #oh well #she doesn’t really like attention anyways #only occasionally #rambles #off to the void this goes

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maydillydally · 2 years

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Tagged by @demobatman apparently (hi bats, if u see this. I just recently started following. BUT I saw the post… So since ur a cop out I can do this. Maybe I shoulda asked before reblogging? Lemme know.)

Last song: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult (I am a sucker for classic rock)

Last show: Stranger things

Current show: nothing. But I have reasons, hear me out (I just finished a summer course since I’m in college so I’ve been stressing out about that final. It was fine tho I got a good grade and everything. Anyways, I’ve previously watched a lot when I’ve had time. Sherlock is one of my all time favorites, bats! Where’d you find it to watch on? Since they removed it netflix I have been lost… jk I’m just little dramatic but genuinely curious. Um. That is if ur still reading. totally understand if not cuz I ramble)

Currently reading: steddie fics on ao3 (despite my college stress… shhhh I’m deep in the steddie brainrot) Specifically I’m in the middle of ch. 9 of “Keep it Steady, Eddie” by outofmygourd. And I’m liking it a lot.

Tagging: ugh I don’t have any mutuals… (I’m not very active on here but I’m going to try to change that. I’ve not had the best past exps with social media, so I cut it out of my life for a bit. I’ll try tho and see if me actually doing this out is good for me or not. My anxiety is awful sometimes) Sooo, Imma cop out too!! Lmao If you see this you can do this too

tagged by bestie @goingsteddi3

last song: deja vu by olivia rodrigo (shut up.)

last show: i think literally stranger things i dont really watch series('s... series' ? multiple. what) that much

current show: ......sherlock (hey why is it so good? actually? i see why it dominated tumblr back in the day)

currently reading: i literally dont read this is so embarrassing

tagging: anyone who sees this bc im a cop out

#sorry I suck at posting #but watch I suck more at tagging #steddie #stranger things #bbc sherlock #screaming into the tumblr void #not really tho this time #I actually tagged someone #wow #seriously tho guys #I need ppl I can tag in stuff like this #at least I think…#maybe it won’t be good for my anxiety #once more I am rambling in my tags #but I’m done now

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